SBR.. '2 ~ ,~ Triumph of Faith; 377 vil, though in a remot~-Place, ('tis an aB: of immediate Creation) and Satan muft be gone, no Creature here interveeneth; 'Tis Chrift's _({enetheto his Omnipotent (be it fo) that doth the Turn; 'tis not Faith, 'tis not a gdod Angel expelling an evil one, nor one Devil beating another,nor theDifCipleshelping theWoman,though they alfo did caft outDevils. The more immediate Mercies be, the more Lovetxpre:flionsof God1in them; the firft Rofes rhe firft Trees artl Plants that God's own immed 1 iate Art produced, and in v;hi~h Nature could not fhare, a re the perfectdt Creatures ; the reit. of the Creatures after the 'Fall, come not near in Goodnefs and Beauty to God's firft Samplar, which ar~ .(as it were) the .firft E./foJIS of Omnipotency: The greatefl: Mercies the moft · immediate,; thefe be f.;,eet Favours that come (~s it were) hot and new, immediately from God himfdf: See it in a 11 the excellent Things that God gtveth us, efpecially, in thefe four. 1. In Chrift~ 2. Grace. 3· GJorJ. 4· Comfort. Chrifl: is God's higheft Love Gift: Now Chrift the Mediator was f!i "·en without any Medium, or any int~rveening :rvi~diator. God out of the meer Bottom of free Love piveth Ghrift: The Lord Chrift was not given by fo much as Requeft, or Counfel of Men or Angels~ Chri(l, Heb. i. 3· by bimfetf purged our fi_ns, 1 Tim. ii. 6. He ga·ve bimfelf a Ranfom for at!, 1 Pet. ii. 24. Who his own fe~(bare our Sins, in his o:;:vn body on the 'Tree : He £ais6ed and paid in his own Perfon : it was not a deput~ ed Work, God the Lord of I... ife in proper Perfon redeemed us : Chrift's Love to us was not de' - puty Love-, he loved usrnot by a Vicar: Chrift js given freely; as a Redt:emer, is m·ore effi:ntially . ~
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