Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

3. A third Character of Divinity in the Scriptures is the wisdom which there doth appear, especially the wonderful contrivement of God's wisdom in Mans redemption and salvation by Jesus Christ, which is there made known; No Book in the World doth shine with such beams of wisdom, as the Word doth; it doth teach Men wisdom, spiritual and divine wisdom, in comparison with which all the wisdom of the World is but foolishness; It doth irradiate the mind with the most glorious light, and proposeth to the understanding the most noble objects; it discovers the greatest truths of the greatest concernment; it showeth the way to avoid the most dreadful effects which sin will produce, and to obtain the highest happiness which humane nature is capable of; which is one part of its divine stamp. Moreover the Scriptures do set forth the infinite wisdom of God, in the wonderful contrivement of the salvation of fallen Man by his only Son the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of Man-kind, which wisdom being so transcendent, doth evidence both the Contrivement thereof ⟨p. 179⟩in Mans salvation, and the discovery thereof in the Scriptures to be from himself: so that as by the light of the Word we may know what this wisdom was, even so by this wisdom we may know the Word to be the Word of God.

3. A third Character of Divinity in the Scriptures is the wisdome which there doth appear, especially the wonderful contrivement of God's wisdome in Mans redemption and salvation by Iesus Christ, which is there made known; No Book in the World doth shine with such beames of wisdome, as the Word doth; it doth teach Men wisdome, spiritual and divine wisdome, in comparison with which all the wisdome of the World is but foolishness; It doth irradiate the minde with the most glorious light, and proposeth to the understanding the most noble objects; it discovers the greatest truths of the greatest concernment; it sheweth the way to avoid the most dreadful effects which sin will produce, and to obtain the highest happiness which humane nature is capable of; which is one part of its divine stamp. Moreover the Scriptures do set forth the infinite wisdome of God, in the wonderful contrivement of the salvation of fallen Man by his only Son the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of Man-kind, which wisdome being so transcendent, doth evidence both the Contrivement thereof ⟨p. 179⟩in Mans salvation, and the discovery thereof in the Scriptures to be from himself: so that as by the light of the Word we may know what this wisdome was, even so by this wisdome we may know the Word to be the Word of God.