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THE FORETASTE
OF HEAVE'S.
543
sus
:"
But this man
is
personally united
to
the
blessed
Cod,
he
is
"
God
manifest
in
the
flesh
:"
He
is
a
man
"
in whom dwells all
the
fulness
of
the
godhead; bodily,"
to
constitute
one all
-
sufficient
Saviour
of
miserable
and
Fallen
mankind
:
What
art amazing stoop
or condescen-
iion is
this for the
eternal godhead
thus
to
join
itself
to
a
reature, and what a surprizing exaltation
is
this
of
the
creature
for the man
Christ Jesus
thus to be assumed
nto
so
near
a
relation
to
the
blessed
God
?
All
the glo-
ries
that
result
from this divine
contrivance and
transac-
.:ion
are
not
to be
renumerated
in
paper, nor
by
the best
capacity
of
writers
here
on
earth
:
The
heavenly
inha-
bitants
are
much
better acquainted
with them.
Again, here
is
an example
of
the harmony
and co-
operation
of
unsearchable
wisdom
and
all-
commanding
power
in
the person
of
the
blessed
Jesus
;
and
what
a
happy
design
is
hereby executed,
namely,
the
reconcilia-
tion
of
sinful man
and
the
holy and
glorious
God
:
and
who
could do this
but
one
who was possessed
of
such
wisdom
and
such power
?
When there
was
no
creature
in
heaven
or
earth
sufficient
for this
work,
God
was
pleased to
appoint
such an union between a
creature and
the Creator,
between
God
and man, as
might answer all
the inconceivable purposes concealed
in his
thought.
If
there be wanting a person
fit to
execute
any
of
his
infinite
designs, he
will
not
he
frustrated
for want
of
an agent, he
appoint God
and man to be
so
nearly united
as
to
become one
agent
to
execute
this design.
e.
In
the
manner of our
salvation,
via. by
an
atone-
ment
for
sin.
The great God
did
not think it proper,
nor
agreeable to
his
sublime
holiness,
to receive sinful
man
into
his
favour
without
an
atonement
for
sin,
and
a
satisfaction made
to the governor
of
the world for
the
ahuse and violation
of
his
holy law
here
on
earth
;
and
therefore he appointed
such
a
sacrifice
of
atonement
as
might
be
sufficient
to
do complete
honour
to
the
law
-
giver,
as
well as
to save and
deliver the
offender
from
death
Therefore Jesus
was
made
a
man
capable
of
suf-
fering
and dying,
that
he might
honour
the majesty
and
the
justice of
the
broken
law
of
God,'
and
that
he
might
do
it cötnpletely
by
the
union of
godhead
to
this man
and
Mediator;
the dignity
of
whose
divinity
diffuses
itself
over
all
that
he
did, àrrd
all
that
he suffered, so as
to make