PART I, irz holy Off lions. 29 it appears fhining in all its Luf}re, in the Face of an incarnate, infi- nitely loving, meek, compaffionate, d)ing Redeemer. All the Ver- tues of the Lamb of God, his Humility, Patience, Meeknefs, Sub- miffion, Obedience, Love & Companion, are exhibited to our View, in a manner the moll: tending to move ourAffections, of any that can be imagined ; as they all had their greaten Trial, and their highelt Exercife, and fo their brighten Manifeflation, when he was in the molt affecting Circumftances ; even when he was under his lalt Sufferings, thofe unutterable and unparailel'd Sufferings, he endured, from his tender Love and Pity to us. There alto, the hateful Nature of our Sins is manifefled in the molt affecting Manner poffible; as we fee the dreadful Effects of them, in what ourRedeemer, who un- dertook to anfNer for us, fuffered for them. And there we have the molt affecting Manifenations of God's Hatred of Sin, and his Wrath and Juflice in punithing it ; as we fee his Junice in the Strictnefs and Inflexiblenefs of it, and his Wrath in its Terriblenefs, in fo dreadfully punifhing our Sins, in One who was infinitely dear to him, and loving to us. So has God difpofed Things, in the Affair of ourRedemption, and in his glorious Difpenfations, revealed to us in the Gofpel, as tho' every Thing were purpofely contrived in fuch a Manner, as to save the greateft, poflible Tendency to reach our Hearts in the molt tender Part, and move our Affections molt fenfibly and ftrongly. How great Caufe have we therefore to be humbled to the Duff, that we are no more affected i PART
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