Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

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⟩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 shewn them in this world. Oh, the tryumph of divine Wisdom!

Secondly: Though the love of God had appeared before in our Creation, Protection, and Provision, yet nothing to what it doth in our Redemption by the death of Christ: Lo, here is the love of God in its strength and glory, 1 Joh. 4. 10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our sins. Herein is love (i. e.) here is the highest expression of Gods love to the Creature; not only that ever was, but that ever can be made; for in love only God acteth to the uttermost: What