Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

2. That God will yet exercise and lay out those Properties of his to the utmost in our behalf. Though he hath made them §. 20 all glorious in a way that may tend to our good, yet it doth not absolutely follow that he will use them for our good: for do we not see innumerable Persons perishing everlastingly, notwithstanding the manifestation of himself which God hath made in Christ. Wherefore further, God hath committed all his properties into the hand of Christ, if I may so say, to be managed in our behalf, and for our good. He is the power of God, and the wisdom of God, he is the Lord our Righteousness, and ¹is made unto us of God, Wisdom and Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption. Christ having glorified his Father in all his Attributes, he hath now the exercise of them committed to him, that he might be the Captain of Salvation to them that do believe. So that if in the Righteousness, the Goodness, the Love, the Mercy, the All-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf. Hence God is said to be in him reconciling the world unto Himself 2 Cor. 5. 18. Whatever is in him he layeth it out for the Reconciliation of the World, in and by the Lord Christ. And he becomes the Lord our Righteousness. Isa. 45. 24. 25. and this is the second thing required.

2. That God will yet exercise and lay out those Properties of his to the utmost in our behalfe. Though he hath made them §. 20 all glorious in a way that may tend to our good, yet it doth not absolutely follow that he will use them for our good: for doe we not see innumerable Persons perishing everlastingly, notwithstanding the manifestation of himselfe which God hath made in Christ. Wherefore further, God hath committed all his properties into the hand of Christ, if I may so say, to be managed in our behalfe, and for our good. He is the power of God, and the wisedome of God, he is the Lord our Righteousnesse, and ¹is made unto us of God, Wisedome and Righteousnesse, Sanctification and Redemption. Christ having glorifyed his Father in all his Attributes, he hath now the exercise of them committed to him, that he might be the Captaine of Salvation to them that doe believe. So that if in the Righteousnesse, the Goodnesse, the Love, the Mercy, the Allsufficiency of God, there be any thing that will doe us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalfe. Hence God is said to be in him reconciling the world unto Himselfe