3. Come we to the last thing, which I shall but touch upon;
and that is judgment. The true wisdom of this also is hid in the
Lord Christ; I mean, in particular, that judgment that is for to come: so
at present I take the word in that place, [John xvi.
8.] Of what concernment this is to us to know, I shall not
speak; — it is that whose “Bene
et compositè C. Cæsar … de vita et morte disseruit, falsa, credo,
existimans, ea quæ de infernis memorantur; diverso itinere malos a bonis
loca tetra, inculta, fœda atque formidolosa habere,” — Cato. apud. Sallust. Bell. Catil.
lii.Ἀλλ’ ἔστι
καὶ τῷ ὄντι τὸ ἀγκβιώσκεσθαι, καὶ ἐκ τῶν τεθνεώτων τοὺς ζῶντας γίγνεσθαι,
καὶ τὰς τῶν τεθνεώτων ψυχὰς εἶναι· καὶ ταῖς μὲν ἀγαθαῖς ἄμεινον εἶναι, ταῖς
δὲ κακαῖς, κάκιον. — Plat. in Phæd.
17.influence upon the sons of men is the principle of
their discriminating themselves from the beasts that perish. Neither shall
I insist on the
“Devenêre locos lætos, et amœna
vireta
Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque
beatas,” etc.
Virg., Æn. vi.
638.obscure intimations of it which are given by the
present proceedings of Providence in governing the world; nor that greater
light of it which shines in the threats and promises of the law. The
wisdom of it is in two regards hid in the Lord Jesus:— (1.) As
to the truth of it. (2.) As to the manner of it:—