242 Defcription of Chrif.r righteorifneffe. . Now for this we. are to know that fin having made a :moot dreadful( breach between God and -man, God was refolv'd to have his juflice fatisfyed, or none of the children of men. fhould ever be fav'd : If his juflice were not fatisfyed, they fhould be all in the fainne loci condition that the Angels were that f nn'd againfl hen i ; Therefore faith God;puni(hment muff: by ind(&ed for fm co mlitted,. and that Law of mine it mull. be kept, or none (halt be excepted. Now when God flood up- on this, that he would not meerely through mercy fay thus,. You have finned againfl me,and I will pardon you, and there's an end ; No faith Uod, you have now.fînn'd, and I am refolv'd my juflice fhall be honoured either in your eternal' perdition,. or force other way wherein my juflice (hall have as much ho- nour as if you were eternally damned. Man is now in fuch a. condition fallen that he hath loft all righteoufnef e, that he is, not able to think a thought, to fpeake a word, to doe an ae ion that is righteous, acceptable to God : But faith God, I am re- folved upon this that I will have my righteous Law kept if ever you be fav'd :What a dreadful( condition is man in now,know ing what God flands upon ! why thenmuff not all men perifh eternally ? If that queflion had been askt in heaven after Gods revealing filch a determination of his, furely all the Angelis in heaven muff have given in their anfwer, then man muff perifh, we cannot fee any way how it's'po(fble for them to be fav'd, if God flands thus upon it : But now Jefus Ch rift, the wifdome of the Father, the fecond perfon in Trenity, he comes in and fhews a way, how the juftice, the infinite juftice of God may be fatisfied, the Law kept, and wretched fnfull corrupt man yet faved The Lord Jefus Chri(} comes and tenders himfelf to be the head of afecond Covenant, faying as it were after this manner, Father, all mankind is fallen from thee in that firfl co- venant that thou haft made with them, and they are all now flìut up under fin and unrighteoufnefs, but I am content to be the head ofanother Covenant, for to be a Mediatour to take their natùre upon me, and Ile take fuck a way for their falvati- on as thy juflice "hall be no loofer,thou (halt have as much glo- t)!, to thy juflice,as thou ihouldfl have if they were all damned,, and.
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