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

Humane affection is begotten, and nourished by something without, but the Love of God is from within: the misery of the Creature is the occasion, but the reason of it is from himself. And how free was that Love, that caused the infinitely blessed God to do so much for our recovery, as if his felicity were imperfect without ours!

Humane affection is begotten, and nourisht by something without, but the Love of God is from within: the misery of the Creature is the occasion, but the reason of it is from himself. And how free was that Love, that caus'd the infinitely blessed God to do so much for our recovery, as if his felicity were imperfect without ours!

It doth not prejudice the freeness of redeeming Mercy, that Christ's personal Glory was the reward of his Sufferings.

1. 'Tis true, that our Redeemer for the Joy that was set before him, ¹endured the Cross, despising the shame, ⟨p. 149⟩and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God: but he was not first drawn to the undertaking of that hard service by the interest of the reward. For if we consider him in his Divine Nature, he was the second Person in the Trinity, equal to the first, he possest all the Supreme Excellencies of the Deity, and by assuming our Nature the only gain he purchased to himself, was to be capable of loss for the accomplishing our Salvation. Such was the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich, ²