Secondly, This resignation is made unto God, even the whole sacred Trinity, as the centre and ultimate object of faith, I say, the whole sacred Trinity. For though Christ, as God-man, the Mediator, be only the grand medium, by and through which faith makes its approaches to God, yet Christ as God is not the ultimate object of faith; I say, the whole sacred Trinity, as the centre and ultimate object of faith: For nothing is or can be the formal reason or terminating object of faith, but the Deity or divine nature only; whose infinite excellency and perfection doth naturally merit the same; whose infallible truth, rich mercy, matchless power, and unsearchable wisdom, calls for faith to come and repose in its bosom; there and there only can it ultimately rest and keep Sabbath: this the Scripture expresses emphatically by trusting in Jehovah, the rock of ages, and centre of faith. Thus then it is, faith first goes to Christ the Mediator, and then in and through him it advances unto God. The Apostle is express in it, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God, 1 Pet. 1.21. Faith in Christs blood, is saith in the way, the new and living way, consecrated through the veil of his flesh; but faith in God, is faith in the ultimate end and centre. Moreover, that faith may arrive at him, he comes as it were out of his unapproachable light, and manifests himself in Attributes; he lets down his veracity, grace, wisdom, ⟨p. 85⟩power, holiness, and sovereignty, as so many beams of his glory for our faith to lean upon, and as it were to climb up by unto himself. They that know thy name will trust in thee, saith the Psalmist, Psal. 9.10. the knowledge of Attributes is a staff to our weak faith in its walk to him.
Secondly, This resignation is made unto God, even the whole sacred Trinity, as the center and ultimate object of faith, I say, the whole sacred Trinity. For though Christ, as God-man, the Mediator, be only the grand medium, by and through which faith makes its approaches to God, yet Christ as God is not the ultimate object of faith; I say, the whole sacred Trinity, as the center and ultimate object of faith: For nothing is or can be the formal reason or terminating object of faith, but the Deity or divine nature only; whose infinit excellency and perfection doth naturally merit the same; whose infallible truth, rich mercy, matchless power, and unsearchable wisdom, calls for faith to come and repose in its bosom; there and there only can it ultimately rest and keep Sabbath: this the Scripture expresses emphatically by trusting in Jehovah, the rock of ages, and center of faith. Thus then it is, faith first goes to Christ the Mediator, and then in and through him it advances unto God. The Apostle is express in it, who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God, 1 Pet. 1.21. Faith in Christs blood, is saith in the way, the new and living way, consecrated through the vail of his flesh; but faith in God, is faith in the ultimate end and center. Moreover, that faith may arrive at him, he comes as it were out of his unapproachable light, and manifests himself in Attributes; he lets down his veracity, grace, wisdom, ⟨p. 85⟩power, holiness, and soveraignty, as so many beams of his glory for our faith to lean upon, and as it were to climb up by unto himself. They that know thy name will trust in thee, saith the Psalmist, Psal. 9.10. the knowledge of Attributes is a staff to our weak faith in its walk to him.
