Attributes of God - Charnock - XXVIII - Chapter 9 (God's wisdom) continued

Required reading
Attributes of God by Charnock (Available from Amazon or free on the internet, here for example) - Continue Chapter 9 (A discourse upon the wisdom of God) by reading up to the paragraph commencing '(3) The wisdom of God doth wonderfully appear in redemption.'

My summary
Today we continue the discourse on the wisdom of God by continuing Charnock's fourth main point which shows wherein the wisdom of God appears. 

Last week we saw that there are three major subpoints to this main point.  God's wisdom appears:
(i) in creation;
(ii) in government;
(iii) in redemption.

Thus last week we dealt with God's wisdom in creation.  This week we see it in government.

Firstly Charnock teaches us about God's wisdom in the government of man as a rational being.  This is seen in:
(i) the law he gives to man;
(ii) the various inclinations and conditions of men.

Secondly God's wisdom appears in the government of men as fallen and sinful.  God's wisdom is particularly observed in:
(i) the bounding of sin;
(ii) the bringing glory to himself out of sin.

Thirdly God's wisdom appears in the government of man in his conversion and return to him.  This divine wisdom appears in:
(i) the subjects of conversion;
(ii) the seasons of conversion;
(iii) the manner of conversions;
(iv) his discipline and penal evils.

What grabbed me
Great teaching on God's providence in sin.  So many good points, such as this one: 'If God should take off all remainders of sin, as well as the guilt of it, we should be apt to forget that we are fallen creatures, and that we had a Redeemer; but the relics of sin in us, remind of the necessity of some higher strength to set us right: they remind us both of our own misery, and the Redeemer's perpetual benefit. God by this keeps up the dignity and honour of our Saviour's blood to the height, and therefore sometimes lets us see, to our own cost, what filth yet remains in us for the employment of that blood, which we should else but little think of, and less admire. Our gratitude is so small to God, as well as man, that the first obligations are soon forgotten, if we stand not in need of fresh ones successively to second them; we should lose our thankful remembrance of the first virtue of Christ's blood in washing us, if our infirmities did not mind us of fresh reiterations and applications of it. '

God's wisdom in his governance of our sin, reminds us of the preciousness of the blood of Christ.

Next week's reading
Continue Chapter 9 (A discourse upon the wisdom of God) by reading up to the paragraph commencing 'V. The use; of information.  If wisdom be an excellency of the divine nature, then...'

Now it's your turn
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