The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

Then he (i. e. God) is gracious: God is always gracious in himself, in his own nature, but he is gracious to none, but in his own way and upon his own terms, God is not gracious to unrighteous & unholy persons: but when men return from their sins, &c God is gracious, and saith, i. e. God saith, Deliver him, — he saith so to his Minister, he gives him commission to deliver him, i. e. to declare him to be delivered, God delivers men authoritative & realiter, Ministers only Ministerialiter & declarative: it is an usual phrase Ministers are said to do, that which they declare God will do, Jer. 1.10. I have set thee over kingdoms and nations (saith God to Jeremiah) to root out, to pull down, and to destroy, i. e. to declare that I will do it.

I have found a ransom — I have received satisfaction, i. e. in the death of my Son, which was a ransom satisfactory for the sins of his people. And farther it is by virtue of this ransom that Gods people are delivered, not only from hell, but from any other miseries. Indeed as Divines distinguish of the resurrection of the godly, and the wicked, so the temporal deliverances which wicked men receive they are the effects of common providence; but those which Christs members receive, they have as the fruits of Christs purchase. And well saith God, I have found a ransom: for it was beyond the wit of men or Angels to find out such an admirable way for mans salvation: Thus you have had the coherence, division, and sense of the words.

I have found a ransom — I have received satisfaction, i. e. in the death of my Son, which was a ransom satisfactory for the sins of his people. And farther it is by vertue of this ransom that Gods people are delivered, not only from hell, but from any other miseries. Indeed as Divines distinguish of the resurrection of the godly, and the wicked, so the temporal deliverances which wicked men receive they are the effects of common providence; but those which Christs members receive, they have as the fruits of Christs purchase. And well saith God, I have found a ransom: for it was beyond the wit of men or Angels to find out such an admirable way for mans salvation: Thus you have had the coherence, division, and sense of the words.