Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

O profound Wisdom, which from the loss and ruin of our Primitive glory, which was the undoing of us, soul and body, takes the occasion of raising us to a far better state, and settles us in it, with a much better security than the former.

O profound Wisdom, which from the loss and ruine of our Primitive glory, which was the undoing of us, soul and body, takes the occasion of raising us to a far better state, and settles us in it, with a much better security than the former.

Who but Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of God (as he is called, 1 Cor. 1. 24.) could ever have ordered and over-ruled the worst of evils, so as by occasion of the breach of the Law to raise more glory to God than ever could have been given to him, by the most punctual observation of its commands, or by the most rigorous execution of its penalties. O the astonishing depth of Wisdom.

Thirdly: The love of God is in ¹Christ. Behold the Lamb of God! and in him, behold the love of God in the highest and most triumphant discovery ⟨p. 92⟩that ever was or can be made of it in this world, 1 Joh. 4. 10. Herein is love, not that we loved him, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our sins. O here, here is the love of God to Sinners; he manifests love to us in our daily provisions, protections, deliverances, and comforts. That we have health when others groan under pains, therein is love. That we have bread to eat, when others are ready to perish, therein is love. O, but to have Christ to be a Propitiation for us, when the Angels that fell were left desperate, therein was love indeed. All the love that breaks out in the variety of providences for us in this world, in our Health and Estates, in our Relations and Comforts, is nothing compared with this love. Herein is love indeed.