Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

Death and Wrath was denounced, no slowness to Anger intimated. It must be therefore upon the account of the Gospel, and a fruit of the Covenant of Grace, whereof Christ was Mediator. Besides this perfection being God's waiting that he might be Gracious. Isaiah 30.18. that which made way for Gods Grace, made ⟨p. 796⟩way for his waiting to manifest it. God discovered not his Grace, but in Christ: And therefore discovered not his Patience but in Christ; 'tis in him he met with the satisfaction of his Justice, that he might have a ground for the manifestation of his Patience. And the Sacrifices of the Law, wherein the Life of a beast was accepted for the sin of a man, discovered the ground of his forbearance of them, to be the expectation of the great sacrifice, whereby sin was to be completely expiated. Gen. 8.21. The publication of his Patience to the end of the World is presently after the sweet savour he found in Noah's sacrifice. The promised and designed coming of Christ was the cause of that Patience God exercised before in the World. And his gathering the Elect together, is the reason of his Patience since his death.

Death and Wrath was denounced, no slowness to Anger intimated. It must be therefore upon the account of the Gospel, and a fruit of the Covenant of Grace, whereof Christ was Mediator. Besides this perfection being God's waiting that he might be Gracious. Isai•h 30.18. that which made way for Gods Grace, made ⟨p. 796⟩way for his waiting to manifest it. God discovered not his Grace, but in Christ: And therefore discovered not his Patience but in Christ; 'tis in him he met with the satisfaction of his Justice, that he might have a ground for the manifestation of his Patience. And the Sacrifices of the Law, wherein the Life of a beast was accepted for the sin of a man, discovered the ground of his forbearance of them, to be the expectation of the great sacrifice, whereby sin was to be compleatly expiated. Gen. 8.21. The publication of his Patience to the end of the World is presently after the sweet savor he found in Noah's sacrifice. The promised and design'd coming of Christ was the cause of that Patience God exercised before in the World. And his gathering the Elect together, is the reason of his Patience since his death.