The application of redemption

There is a Three-fold Ground; from whence the Reasons of this Point may be fetched; which will Evidence, That this manner of proceeding best suits with the infinite Wisdom of God, look we at God, at others, at the sinner himself, with whom the Lord is now trading.

There is a Three-fold Ground; from whence the Reasons of this Point may be fetched; which will Evidence, That this manner of proceeding best suits with the insinite Wisdom of God, look we at God, at others, at the sinner himself, with whom the Lord is now trading.

The Holiness of Gods Nature, and exactness of his ¹Truth, not only commends, but even seems with some kind of comely necessity, to call for such a manner of Dispensation. The Lord stiles himself, the holy One of Israel, a God of purer eyes than can endure to behold iniquity, not able to pass by sin in the least appearance of it; and therefore leaves so strict a charge, beware lest there be an evil thought in thy heart, and abstain from all appearance of evil, 1 Thes. 5. When the Lord is to convince the sinner of sin, to express his mind and displeasure against him, because of those his evils, so scandalous and detestable to all that have but the least spark of saving knowledge and Grace; yea loathsome to the very light of Conscience in corrupt Nature. Should the Lord casily and overly […] them by, with some small […] of some little dislike, it could not but impeach his Purity, and make himself accessary to the dishonour of his own Holiness. When Eli proceeded not with that zeal against […] evil of his Sons, as the […] thereof might justly have provoke […] him unto, but after a slight manner manifested a heart-less dislike of it; the Lord […], 1 Sam. 2. 39. That he honoured ⟨p. 341⟩his sons before him, rather respected their carnal content, that they might not be so […] ashamed, and justly […] as they did deserve than the honour of his name and the excellency of his ordinances and worship, that they might be preserved in that purity and attended with that awfulness and holiness of heart as was meet. Now that which God abhors and punisheth so severely in another, its not possible that the least appearance of any so great an evil should be justly charged upon the holy one of Israel, for he should deny himself to be God if he should deny the exactness of his own infinite holiness, and he should not be just, should he not manifest the glory of his holiness, according to the excellency and […] thereof.