A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

2. As he is man, he received the habits of all created knowledge and wisdom, as all other graces without measure, John 3. and so 'tis said, Col. 2. 3. In him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Well then, since Christ hath brought down wisdom to us in our own nature, let us be more studious to get it into our hearts: As Mediator, he is fitted to make us wise to Salvation, and appointed by God to be wisdom to us, 1 Cor. 1. 30.

2. As he is man, he received the habits of all created knowledg and wisdom, as all other graces without measure, John 3. and so 'tis said, Col. 2. 3. In him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg. Well then, since Christ hath brought down wisdom to us in our own nature, let us be more studious to get it into our hearts: As Mediator, he is fitted to make us wise to Salvation, and appointed by God to be wisdom to us, 1 Cor. 1. 30.

Once note more from the other title, that is here given¹ to Christ [our Saviour] Those that have had any benefit by Christ will be very much affected with his praise; there is a double ground of exalting Christ, a sight of his excellency, and a sense of his benefits; and there is a double notion by which our honouring of Christ is set forth, praise and blessing; praise hath respect to his excellency▪ and blessing to his benefits, Eph 1. 3. We may praise a man for his worth, though we have no benefit by him, and so we are bound to praise God for the excellency of his nature, though he had never done us good; but now when he is our God and our Saviour, and hath showed us so much of his goodness and mercy in Christ, we should be ever praising him,