A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Fourthly, add to this what some with great probability affirm, the same price that bought out our Pardon, might have procured theirs also. By which it plainly appears, that there is no other Reason, why our Estate differs from theirs, but only God's free Sovereign Grace. Upon the same Account, God might have Damned all Mankind that he Damned the Angels for; and at the same cost he might have saved all the fallen Angels, at which he saved some of Mankind. The Merits of Christ are the price of our Pardon and Redemption, and these have in them an infinite worth, and an All-sufficient Expiation, not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole World both ⟨p. 32⟩Men and Devils. The Streams of Christ's Blood shed on the Cross for us, was sufficient to quench the flames of Hell, and utterly to have washed away the Lake of Fire and Brimstone. Hell might have been depopulated, and those black Mansions left void without Inhabitants for ever; and the Devils and Men have been common sharers in that same common Salvation: For Christ having an infinite Dignity in his Person, being God as well as Man; his Blood the Blood of God, his Sufferings the Sufferings and Humiliation of a God, enhanced his Merits to such a redundancy, as neither fallen Angels, nor fallen Men, were their Sins more, and their Miseries greater, were ever able to drain out: Not a drop more of Gall and Wormwood should have been squeezed into the Cup of Christ's Sufferings, though it had proved a Cup of Health and Salvation to them, as well as to us: And yet such was God's dreadful severity that he excluded the Angels from the benefits of Christ's Death, though he had been at no more Expenses to save them; the price of whose Pardon and Redemption would have ⟨p. 33⟩been the same: And yet we, such is the infinite Riches of his Grace and Mercy, are Redeemed by a price that infinitely exceeds the purchase. O the freeness and riches of God's Grace, that he should thus pass by the Angels, and pitch upon and choose such vile wretched Creatures as we are.

Fourthly, add to this what some with great probability affirm, the same price that bought out our Pardon, might have procured theirs also. By which it plainly appears, that there is no other Reason, why our Estate differs from theirs, but only God's free Soveraign Grace. Upon the same Account, God might have Damned all Mankind that he Damned the Angels for; and at the same cost he might have saved all the fallen Angels, at which he saved some of Mankind. The Merits of Christ are the price of our Pardon and Redemption, and these have in them an infinite worth, and an All-sufficient Expiation, not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole World both