ThePriejlhoodo f Chriji. 4.1; t WWWEI 4.9 16.1*NOMS01. adore the unfearchable richesofhis wifdome and good_ ! YE K S E 4 ilea, who when wee were delperately and incurably gone, had found out a wayofcfcape and deliverance for us. God flood not in need of us or any fervice of ours, he could have glorified himfelfe in our juadeftru- 6tion. Who then canenough expreffe either the mercy of God, or the ciufie of man, when tree confiders that `! " God fhouldealltogether all the depths ofhisowne wii:- dome and counfeli, to Cave a companyof defperate fu- gi rives, who had joynee incombinations with his gi ea- lea enemies to recut and difhononr him ? It would have _pofedall the wifdomeof the.world, (cliough mifery be .commonly very witty to fhape and fafluon to ir felfe images of deliverance) tohave found out a way to hea- ven betweene the wrath of God,and the finne of man. It would have poled all the heavenly intelligences, and theunited confultations of the blefied Angels, to have reconciled Gods mercy in the falvarion of man, and, his juitice in the.condemnation offinne, to have powred out hell upon the finne, and yet to have bestowed bea. ven upon the firmer. If God fhould have initruted us thus farre, you are miferable creatures, but I am a mer- cifull God ; the demands of my iuttice I mull not deny, neither will I deny the entreaties of my mercy : finde meout a facrifice anfwerable to my infrice, and it (hail be acceptedfor you all : 0where could man have found out a creatureof capacitieenough to hold ,or of firength enough to beare the finnes of the world, or the wrath ofGod ? Where could he have found out in heaven or earth, arnoriga men or Angels a Priea that dura accom- pany fuch a facrifice into the prefc nee of fo confirming a fire ?Or vvherecouldhe havefound out anAltar where- on tooffer, and whereby tafan614fie fo greata facrfice ? No, no, thetnifery of man was too deer, and inextri- cable forall the createdeounfell in the world to invent a deliverance.Novv then it God hirnfelfe did fludicrofave Inc,
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