When Angels and Men had sinned, how did they fall and crumble before the Anger of God! they had not power to withstand the terror, nor could there be worth found in their Persons, or Doings, to appease displeased Justice. But behold here stands the Son of God before him in the Sin of the World, his Father finding him there, curseth, and condemns him to death: but he by the Power of his God-head, and the Worthiness of his Person and Doings, vanquisheth sin, satisfieth God's Justice, and so becomes the Saviour of the World. Here then is Power seen: Sin is a Mighty thing, it crusheth all in pieces, save him whose Spirit is Eternal, Heb. 9. 14. Set Christ, and his Sufferings aside, and you neither see the Evil of Sin, nor the ⟨p. 165⟩Displeasure of God against it; you see them not in their utmost. Hadst thou a view of all the Legions that are now in the pains of Hell, yea, couldest thou hear their shrieks, and groans together at once, and feel the whole of all their burden: much of the evil of Sin, and of the Justice of God against it, would be yet unknown by thee; for thou wouldest want power to feel, and bear the utmost! A Giant shows not his Power, by killing of a little Child, nor yet is his might seen by the resistance that such a little one makes, but then he showeth his power when he dealeth with one like himself: yea, and the Power also of the other is then made manifest in saving himself from being swallowed up with his Wrath. Jesus Christ also made manifest his Eternal Power and God-head, more, by bearing and over-coming our Sins; than in making, or upholding the whole World: Hence Christ Crucified, is called the Power of God, 1 Cor. 1. 23, 24.
When Angels and Men had sinned, how did they fall and crumble before the Anger of God! they had not power to withstand the terrour, nor could there be worth found in their Persons, or Doings, to appease displeased Justice. But behold here stands the Son of God before him in the Sin of the World, his Father finding him there, curseth, and condemns him to death: but he by the Power of his God-head, and the Worthiness of his Person and Doings, vanquisheth sin, satisfieth God's Justice, and so becomes the Saviour of the World. Here then is Power seen: Sin is a Mighty thing, it crusheth all in pieces, save him whose Spirit is Eternal, Heb. 9. 14. Set Christ, and his Sufferings aside, and you neither see the Evil of Sin, nor the ⟨p. 165⟩Displeasure of God against it; you see them not in their utmost. Had'st thou a view of all the Legions that are now in the pains of Hell, yea, couldest thou hear their shreeks, and groans together at once, and feel the whole of all their burden: much of the evil of Sin, and of the Justice of God against it, would be yet unknown by thee; for thou wouldest want power to feel, and bear the utmost! A Giant shews not his Power, by killing of a little Child, nor yet is his might seen by the resistance that such a little one makes, but then he sheweth his power when he dealeth with one like himself: yea, and the Power also of the other is then made manifest in saving himself from being swallowed up with his Wrath. Jesus Christ also made manifest his Eternal Power and God-head, more, by bearing and over-coming our Sins; than in making, or upholding the whole World: Hence Christ Crucified, is called the Power of God, 1 Cor. 1. 23, 24.
