Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

First: That in his sufferings there would be made a glorious display and manifestation of the divine Attributes; yea, such a glorious display of them as never was made before to Angels or to men, nor ever shall be any more in this world. For though,

First: The Wisdom of God had made it self visible to men in the Creation of the world, yet there it shone but in a faint and languishing beam, compared with this. Here divine Wisdom put it self as it were into a visible form, and represented it self to the life. See 1 Cor. 1. 24. and Eph. 30. 10. Behold in the death of Christ the Wisdom of God in its highest exaltation and glory. O the manifold Wisdom of God! O the depth of his unsearchable wisdom. Which I touched in some particulars before, p. 102.

Behold here the Wisdom of God raising more glory to himself by occasion of the breach of the Law, than could ever have risen to him from the ⟨p. 156⟩most punctual observation of its commands, or the most rigorous execution of its threatenings; from the occasion of the fall (which was our undoing) raising us to a far better estate, and with a much better security to enjoy it than that from which we fell. Yea, behold and wonder, God by the death of Christ, recovering his Elect from all the danger and mischief of sin, and yet making the way and manner of their recovery the fairest glass to represent the horror and evil of sin to them, that ever was shown them in this world. Oh, the triumph of divine Wisdom!

Behold here the Wisdom of God raising more glory to himself by occasion of the breach of the Law, than could ever have risen to him from the ⟨p. 156⟩