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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 2 › Chapter 2 › Section 2: Of considering Jesus in that respect.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. When God appointed a surety, his Son, and charged our debts upon him to satisfy his justice: in that God would not spare his Son the least farthing token, I mean, not the least degree of punishment; hereby the Lord shows a stronger love to justice then if he had damned ten thousand, thousand creatures. Suppose a Malefactor comes before a Judge, the Judg will not spare the Malefactor, but commands satisfaction to the Law; this shows that the Judge loves justice: but if the Judges own Son be a delinquent, and it appears before all the Country, that the Judge will not spare him, the Judge now doth more honour justice in this, than in condemning a thousand others: So when the Lord shall cast many thousands to Hell there to be tormented for ever, and ever, and ever, this shows that God loves justice; but when his own Son shall take our sins upon him, and God will not spare him, (that is the very word in the Scripture,1 he spared not his own Son) this, surely this declares Gods love to righteousness more than if all the World should be Damned.
1. When God appointed a surety, his Son, and charged our debts upon him to satisfie his justice: in that God would not spare his Son the least farthing token, I mean, not the least degree of punishment; hereby the Lord shewes a stronger love to justice then if he had damned ten thousand, thousand creatures. Suppose a Malefactor comes before a Judge, the Judg will not spare the Malefactor, but commands satisfaction to the Law; this shewes that the Judge loves justice: but if the Judges own Son be a delinquent, and it appears before all the Country, that the Judge will not spare him, the Judge now doth more honour justice in this, than in condemning a thousand others: So when the Lord shall cast many thousands to Hell there to be tormented for ever, and ever, and ever, this shewes that God loves justice; but when his own Son shall take our sins upon him, and God will not spare him, (that is the very word in the Scripture,1 he spared not his own Son) this, surely this declares Gods love to righteousness more than if all the World should be Damned.