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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 4 › Chapter 2 › Section 5: Of Believing in Jesus in that Respect.
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2. The helps of faith in this sad condition are these.
1. A consideration that God is pleased to pass by, and to overlook the unworthiness of his poor creatures; this we see plain in the very act of his incarnation; himself disdains not to be as his poor creatures, to wear their own flesh, to take upon him humane nature; and in all things to become like unto man, sin only excepted.
2. A consideration that God satisfies Justice, by setting up Christ who is Justice it self; now was it that mercy and truth met together, and righteousness and peace kissed each other; now was it that free grace and merit, that fullness and nothingness were made one; now was it that all things became nothing, and nothing all things; our nature which lay in rags, was enriched with the unsearchable treasures of glory; now was it that God was made flesh; and so that flesh which was so weak, as not able to save its own life, was now enabled to save millions of souls, and to bring forth the greatest designs of God; now was it that truth ran to mercy, and embraced her, and righteousness to peace, and kissed her, in Christ they meet, yea in him was the infinite exactness of God's Justice satisfied.
2. A consideration that God satisfies Justice, by setting up Christ who is Justice it self; now was it that mercy and truth met together, and righteousness and peace kissed each other; now was it that free grace and merit, that fulness and nothingness were made one; now was it that all things became nothing, and nothing all things; our nature which lay in rags, was enriched with the unsearchable treasures of glory; now was it that God was made flesh; and so that flesh which was so weak, as not able to save its own life, was now enabled to save millions of souls, and to bring forth the greatest designs of God; now was it that truth ran to mercy, and embraced her, and righteousness to peace, and kissed her, in Christ they meet, yea in him was the infinite exactness of God's Justice satisfied.