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2. His Goodness in Redemption is greater than any Goodness expressed to the Fallen Angels. 'Tis the wonder of his Goodness to us, that he was mindful of Fallen Man, and careless of Fallen Angels; That he should visit Man, wallowing in Death and Blood with the Day-spring from on high, and never turn the Egyptian darkness of Devils into a cheerful day; When they Sinned Divine Thunder dashed them into Hell; When Man Sinned Divine Blood wafts the Fallen Creature from his Misery: The Angels wallow in their own Blood for ever, while Christ is made partaker of our Blood, and wallows in his Blood, that we might not for ever corrupt in ours; They tumbled down from Heaven, and Divine Goodness would not vouchsafe to catch them: Man tumbles down, and Divine Goodness holds out a hand drenched in the Blood of him, that was from the Foundations of the World, to lift us up, Heb. 2.16. He spared not those dignified Spirits, when they Revolted; and spared not punishing his Son for dusty Man, when he offended; when he might as well for ever have let Man lie in the Chains wherein he had entangled himself, as them. We were as fit Objects of Justice as they, and they as fit Objects of Goodness as we: they were not more wretched by their Fall than we, and the poverty of our Nature rendered us more unable to recover our selves, than the dignity of theirs did them; They were his Reuben his first born, they were his Might and the beginning of his Strength, yet those Elder Sons he neglected to prefer the Younger; They were the Prime and Golden Pieces of Creation, not laden with gross Matter, yet they lie under the Ruins of their Fall, while Man, Lead in comparison of them, is refined for another World.

2. His Goodness in Redemption is greater than any Goodness expressed to the Fallen Angels. 'Tis the wonder of his Goodness to us, that he was mindful of Fall'n Man, and careless of Fall'n Angels; That he should visit Man, wallowing in Death and Blood with the Day-spring from on high, and never turn the Aegyptian darkness of Devils into a chearful day; When they Sinn'd Divine Thunder dasht them into Hell; When Man Sinn'd Divine Blood wafts the Fallen Creature from his Misery: The Angels wallow in their own Blood for ever, while Christ is made partaker of our Blood, and wallows in his Blood, that we might not for ever corrupt in ours; They tumbled down from Heaven, and Divine Goodness would not vouchsafe to catch them: Man tumbles down, and Divine Goodness holds out a hand drencht in the Blood of him, that was from the Foundations of the World, to lift us up,