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

In the midst of his Sufferings, no irregular motion disturbed his Soul, but He always expressed the highest Reverence to God, and incredible Charity to Men. He was compared to a Lamb, (for his Passion and his Patience) that quietly dies at the foot of the Altar.

In the midst of his Sufferings, no irregular motion disturbed his Soul, but He alwaies exprest the highest Reverence to God, and incredible Charity to Men. He was compared to a Lamb, (for his Passion and his Patience) that quietly dies at the foot of the Altar.

Besides, We may consider in our Mediator not only a perfect freedom from Sin, but an impossibility that he should be touched by it. The Angelical Nature was liable to folly; but the Humane Nature by its intimate and unchangeable Union with the ⟨p. 234⟩Divine is established above all possibility of Falling. The Deity is Holiness […] self, and by its personal presence, is a greater preservative from sin, than either the vision of God in Heaven, or the most permanent habit of Grace. Our Saviour tells us the Son can do nothing of himself, but according to the pattern the Father sets him. ¹Now the perfect Holiness of our Redeemer hath a special efficacy in making his Death to be the expiation of Sin, as the Scripture frequently declares.² For such an high Priest became us who is holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. And he that knew no sin, was made sin for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him. ³We are Redeemed not with corruptible things, as Silver, and Gold, ⁴but with the precious Blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish,