"2 6 2 An humble Enquir:Y into tl.'e Infinite Wijdom of God. can num!Jer, Rev. 7. 9· The fins which they were to ce deli– . vered, ranfomed and jufiified from, for which aPropitiation was to be made, were next unto abfolutely infinite. They wholiy furpafs the comprehenfton of any created underfiand- , ing, or the compafs of Imagination. And in every one of them there was fomething redudive!J In}inite, as committed 2gainfr an'Infinite Majefl:y. The miferies which hereon all _tl1efe Perfons were obnoxious upto, were Infinite, becaufe Eternal; or all that evil which our Nature is capable to fuf– fer, was by them all eternally to be undergone. By all tbefe Perfons, in all thefejins, there was an inrode made on the Rule and Government ofGod, anaffront given unto his Juflice in the violation of his Law. Nor can any of them be deliven.d from the confequents hereof in eternal mi– iery without a c()mpenfation and fatisfafrion made unto thle Jufl:ice of God. To affert the contrary, is- to fuppofe that upon the matter, it is all one to him whether he be o/;eyedor difohyerl, vvhether he be honoured or difhonoured in and by his Creatures. And this is all one as to deny his very Being; feeing it oppofeth ~heGlory of his effential Properties. Now to fuppofe that a meer man by his temporary fuffering of ex– ternr).i pains, ihould make £1tisfacrion unto the Jufiice of G,od for dll tbefins ofall theje Perfons [o ·as it f110uld be right and juG: with him, not only to fave and deliver them from all the evils they'Were liable unto, but alfo to bring them unto Life . :/)'J1d Glory, is to confiitute a J/1/edi.ation between God and ·. ·'Man that ·fhould confifr in Appearance and Ofrentation, and not te an effect ofDivine \Vi!dom, Righteoufnefs and Holi– ' nefs, ·nor have its Foundation in the Nature and Equity of things themfelves. For the things fuppofed will not be redu– . ced unto any Rules of Juftice or Proportion,, that one ofthem flmuid be conceived many fenfe to anfwer unto the other. That is, t:-tere is nothing which anfwers any Rule, notions or
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