A discourse of the saving grace of God

See then what Man is in Gods account, as less than that which is less than nothing. And can you imagine any thing in this Nothing, man, that should oblige the great God to save him? O, sure it is Grace, free Love; and such as may astonish Heaven and Earth; that the great God, who measures the Seas in the hollow of his Hand, who spans the Heavens, and weighs the Mountains, should condescend to do thus much ⟨p. 8⟩for any of these poor despicable nothings: should contrive their Salvation from Eternity, and send his Son, the Son of his Love, of his delight, to procure it with his Blood, and then admit them to an eternal enjoyment of himself in Glory.

See then what Man is in Gods account, as less than that which is less than nothing. And can you imagine any thing in this Nothing, man, that should oblige the great God to save him? O, sure it is Grace, free Love; and such as may astonish Heaven and Earth; that the great God, who measures the Seas in the hollow of his Hand, who spans the Heavens, and weighs the Mountains, should condescend to do thus much ⟨p. 8⟩for any of these poor despicable nothings: should contrive their Salvation from Eternity, and send his Son, the Son of his Love, of his delight, to procure it with his Blood, and then admit them to an eternal injoyment of himself in Glory.

2. The Deformity of man as he is sinful. We showed before, man was Nothing, less than nothing, in the sight of God. Now we will show, he is worse than nothing; even a deformed nothing, or rather nothing but Deformity.

2. The Deformity of man as he is sinful. We shewed before, man was Nothing, less than nothing, in the sight of God. Now we will shew, he is worse than nothing; even a deformed nothing, or rather nothing but Deformity.