Spiritual eace and Comfort. DIRECTION IV. 4. Next this Le fure that you deeply apprehend the Gracious Nature , ofition and Office ofthe Mediatour repo' Cbrift. MI-lough there can no more be Paid of the Gräci- ous Natureof the Son, then of the I:other's even thathis Goodnefs is Infinite ; yet there two ad- vantages this consideration will addunto the former. 1. Youwill fee here Goodnefs and Mercy in its con defcenfion, and neerer to you then in the Divine Nature alone it was. Our thoughts of Cod are ne- ceffarily more flrange,becau e of our infinite di Dance from the Godhead ; and therefore our apprehenficns ofGods Goodnefs will b° the leg' working, becaufe lets familiar. But in Christ God is come down into our Nature, and fo Infinite Goodnefs and Mercy is. incarnate. The man Chrifi ?efus is able now to fav'e to the utmofl all that come to Gool by him. We have a Merciful High-Eriethat is acquainted with our in- firmities. z. Hereinwe fee the Will of God putting forth it felf for our help in the molt altonifhing way that could he imagined. Here is more then E 4 meerly
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