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SEEM,
XLIV.3
AND
THE
USE
OP
IT.
271
divinely
glorioris
is
this
doctrine
of
the
blessed
Trinity
!
And what an astonishing favour
is
it,
that
the
sacred
Three
should
join
in
the
work
of
our
salvation
!
Remark
II.
How
happily
is
the
gospel
suited
to
the
recovery
of
fallen man,
by
supplying
all his wants in
a
most
divine
manner
?
Is the great God
offended
by
the
sin man
?
Behold,
he
takes
upon
him in
the
gospel,
the
naine and title
of a
Father,
to
invite perishing rebels
to
return
to
his
mercy,
and
he employs his
Son,
and
his
Spirit, to
give
sinners
a
near
access to himself.
Are
we
guilty criminals,
condemned
rebels,
and afar
off
from
God
?
Behold, the Son
of
God
himself,
who
is one
with
the
Father,
takes
flesh
and blood upon
him,
and
so
far
becomes
one
of
us,
that
he
may
sustain the
punishment
of
our iniquities, and mediate
a
peace
be-
tween God and sinners
:
and this he does
by his
powerful
intercession,
in
the virtue
of
his
bloody sacrifice.
Is
our
nature corrupted
by sin
?
Are
we
grown
stran-
gers and enemies
to
God
by
our continued
rebellions
?
Behold, the blessed
Spirit
of
God
comes
into
our
hearts:
His
almighty
operations
can enlighten
our
dark
minds,
bend
our
obstinate
wills,
change our
corrupted
affec-
tions,
and make
us
willing to
return
to
God
in his
own
way,
and
to
accept
the reconciliation.
He
sends his
own Spirit,
to
create
us
anew in his
own
image,
and
make
us fit
for
his service,
and
his
enjoyment.
We are,
by
nature, children
of
Satan, and children
of
wrath;
the
great
God
becomes
a
Father
to
us: We
are
condemned, and the
Son
of
God,
dwelling
in
the
flesh,
becomes
a Reconciler
:
We
are
unholy,
and
the
Spirit
of
God
becomes
our
Sanctifier. We have
destroyed
ourselves beyond
all possibility
of
created
help, and
God
himself
becomes
our
Saviour, and he
will be
seen
in
every
part
of
our
salvation,
a
divine
Father, a divine
Reconciler, and
a
divine Sanctifier.
Remark
III.
How
well
has the
blessed
God provided
for
love
and union amongst
all his
true
worshippers
!
He
has left
them
no
just
ground to contend,
and
quarrel,
or
break
themselves
into little angry parties,
for
he
has
now
appointed but
one religion for them
all,
one
general
method
of
access to him.
IIe
has
ordained
but
one
Mediator,
Jesus
Christ,
and has appointed
one Spirit,