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

This Wisdom then is also hid in Christ: men may see by other helps perhaps far enough to fill them with dread and Astonishment, as those in Isa. 33. 14. But such a sight and view of it, as may lead a soul to any comfortable settlement about it; ⟨p. 110⟩that only is discovered in this treasury of heaven, the Lord Jesus.

This Wisdome then is also hid in Christ: men may see by other helpes perhaps farr enough to fill them with dread and Astonishment, as those in Isa. 33. 14. But such a sight and view of it, as may lead a soule to any comfortable settlement about it; ⟨p. 110⟩that only is discovered in this treasury of heaven, the Lord Jesus.

2. Our disability to answer the mind and will of God, in all or any of the Obedience that he requireth, is in him only to be discovered. This indeed is a thing that many will not be acquainted with to this day. To teach a man that he cannot do, what he ought to do; & for which he condemns himself, if he do it not, is no easy task. Man rises up with all his power, to plead against a conviction of impotency. Not to mention the proud ^yconceits and expressions of the Philosophers, how many that would be called Christians, do yet creep by several degrees, in the persuasion of a power of fulfilling the Law: and from whence indeed should men have this knowledge that we have not? Nature will not teach it, that is ^zproud and conceited, and it is one part of its pride, weakness, and corruption, not to know it at all. The Law will not teach it; for though that will show us, what we have done amiss, yet it will not discover to us, that we could not do better; yea by requiring exact obedience of us, it takes for granted, that such power is in us for that purpose; it takes no notice, that we have lost it, nor doth it concern it so to do; This then also lies hid in the Lord Jesus,