Ps. xxxiii. 11. Ps. lxvi. 5. Ps. cvii. 11. Gen. xlv. 8.COUNSEL. Besides the common signification of this word, we may observe, that it is used frequently in Scripture for the Decrees of God, the Orders of his Providence. Non vestro concilio, sed Dei voluntate huc missus sum: It is an effect of God’s Decree, and by the direction of his Providence, that I was brought hither, rather than by any design concerted by you. God frustrates the Counsel, the Views, the Designs of Princes; but the counsels of the Lord stand for ever. His Desires, his Will, his Resolutions are executed, without any thing’s being able to oppose them. The counsels of God are terrible against the children of men, his Views, his Designs. They have contemned the counsel of the most High; they have opposed his Will. I have declared unto you all the counsel of God, his Will, his Doctrine. The Jews rejected the Acts xx. 27. Luke vii. 30.counsel of God against themselves, the Favours of God, his Designs of saving them. God will manifest the counsels of the Heart, the Designs, Thoughts, the most secret 1 Cor. iv. 5.Resolutions. Jesus Christ in Isaiah ix. 6. according to the Septuagint, is called Magni consilii Angelus; the Angel, the Minister, the Executor of this great and admirable Design of God, for the Salvation of Mankind.
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