The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /

But now it may be demanded; how it comes to pass that God will have this way of communicating himself to mankind, and will not go in that other way, that we by the light of nature and reason would think he should go? true indeed, we are sinners: I, but God is merciful, and we will seek, and cry to him for pardon and mercy, and deliverance from our sins; and what needs there more? why will not ⟨p. 50⟩God save us this way? I will not stand now to dispute about the possibility of this, but we know this is not the way.

But now it may be demanded; how it comes to passe that God will have this way of communicating himself to mankinde, and will not goe in that other way, that we by the light of nature and reason would think he should goe? true indeed, we are sinners: I, but God is mercifull, and we will seek, and cry to him for pardon and mercy, and deliverance from our sins; and what needs there more? why will not ⟨p. 50⟩God save us this way? I will not stand now to dispute about the possibility of this, but we know this is not the way.

We are therefore now to enquire why God should rather take this strange way, then go any other way? and indeed it is a wonderful way, if we rightly consider it: there is nothing in the world that works so much upon a mans heart to adore and admire God in the mystery of the Gospel, as the understanding of this, that God should have a peculiar way of communicating himself to man, different from Angels, and from all other creatures; that it must be through the second person in the Trinity; and he must take mans nature upon him, and suffer, and dye, and all the mercy we have must be through him: this is a wonderful mystery of godliness; and should take up our serious thoughts in the consideration of it.

We are therefore now to enquire why God should rather take this strange way, then goe any other way? and indeed it is a wonderfull way, if we rightly consider it: there is nothing in the world that works so much upon a mans heart to adore and admire God in the mystery of the Gospell, as the understanding of this, that God should have a peculiar way of communicating himself to man, different from Angels, and from all other creatures; that it must be through the second person in the Trinity; and he must take mans nature upon him, and suffer, and dye, and all the mercy we have must be through him: this is a wonderfull mystery of godlinesse; and should take up our serious thoughts in the consideration of it.