' . Book. IV. '97 was a fight to' draw all the eyes of he-aven to it : it. is faia,of the Angel it nat they de fired to look.)nto the(e thinli; they looked wiJh- 1 P(t , t . n ly at them; as if they would look through ~her:n ; no quefrion but rightepufneffe looked as narrowly and as p1ercmgl y as the Angels: 'fome ohferve that the Hebrew word, fb.e /f)() {zed down, lignifies that foe beat out awindow ; fo defirous was righreoufne!Je to behold the fight of the Vine budding ot <;:hrill being born,that fhe could not hold, but fhe beats out a wi1.1dow in heaven : be- . fore this time fhe would not fo much as look. down towards earth ; righteoufneffe had no prof peer , no window open this way; fhe turned~away her eyes; and clap to the cafeiaent , ·and would not abide fo much as to look on fuchfinful wretches, forlor.ne finners as we·a·re; her eye was purer then to beho!J iniquity, fh~ a b- . hon·ed it, and us for it, ani the-refore would not ,vouchfafe us once the cafi ofher eye. Q but riow the.cafe is alt ~red; no . fJ~- · · ner doth our Vine bl4d upon the earth, but fb>! is wiliin g to condef- ' cend , and fo willing th-at fhe breaks a window tt}rough the walls ofbeaven to look down upon this bud; and nomarvail;for,wbat could riiThteoufnefJe de!ire to fee, and fatisfie her felf in , that \vas not'"to be feen in Jefus Chrifi.? he was all righteous , there was not the leall !pot offinne to be found in him; his birth was dean , and his life was holy, and his death was innocent; ,both his foul and body were without allfinne; both his Spirit and his mouth were without all guile; ~hatfoever fatisfadion ri:f.hteoufn~[Je would have, !he might have it in him, lay judgment to the line , a;~d righte~ufmf{e to the b111llance , and there is nothing in {efus but llreight for the line, and full weiglit for.the ballance. 3. For the meeting and agreement of all Gods Attributes, as the iffue and the loft etfed:tof chis budding Vine , the verfe before . tells us , that mercy and truth are met together, righteoufmffe and peace have kif{ed each other; this me~:ting prefuppofeth a difiance before they met, for they that meet come from diverfe coafis ; here then are two things conGderable; firft , the diftance , and fecond!y, the meeting. But you will fay,how came this ditlance? are they not all the Attributes ofGods undivided effence? are they not all four in the bofome of God from all eternity ? Ianfwer, yes: they are undivided in themfehes, but they were divided about us; it was Ad,ms !inne , and ours in him. that Q._ q firft
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