The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

Indeed if any Heathen were seriously penitent, God is so merciful, that He would rather dispatch an Angel from Heaven, saying, Deliver him from going down into the pit, I have found a ransom, or by some other extraordinary way instruct him in the necessary knowledge of our Saviour, than suffer him to perish to the prejudice of his Mercy. But Repentance as well as Forgiveness is purchased & dispensed alone by our Saviour. And that any received this benefit,¹ who are entirely ignorant of the Benefactor we cannot tell. Now this should raise our esteem of the discriminating favour of God to us.

Indeed if any Heathen were seriously penitent, God is so merciful, that He would rather dispatch an Angel from Heaven, saying, Deliver him from going down into the pit, I have found a ransome, or by some other extraordinary way instruct him in the necessary knowledg of our Saviour, than suffer him to perish to the prejudice of his Mercy. But Repentance as well as Forgiveness is purchased & dispenced alone by our Saviour. And that any received this benefit,¹ who are intirely ignorant of the Benefactor we cannot tell. Now this should raise our esteem of the discriminating favour of God to us.

1. 1Act. 5.31.

What a flood of Errors and Miseries covered the Earth, when the Grace of God that brings Salvation first appeared. The Deluge was universal, and so was the Destruction. Those that were most renowned for Wisdom, the Philosophers of Greece, and the Orators of Rome, were swallowed up, only ⟨p. 113⟩the Church of Christ is triumphant over the merciless waters. When Noah from the top of the Mountain saw the sad remains of that dreadful Inundation, what a lively sense of Joy possest his breast? As Misery is heightened, so Happiness is set off by comparison: