The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

That Man did apostatize and revolt from God, as considered under these several notions: ⟨p. 24⟩And returns to him, when an holy rectitude is recovered, and he again becomes righteous, considered under the same.

That Man did apostatize and revolt from God, as considered under these severall notions: ⟨p. 24⟩And returns to him, when an holy rectitude is recovered, and he again becomes righteous, considered under the same.

That it was not agreeable to Gods wisdom, truth, and legal justice, to treat with Man a Sinner, in order to his recovery, but through a Mediator: and that therefore he was pleased in wonderful mercy, to constitute and appoint his own Son Jesus Christ God-man, unto that Office and Undertaking; that, through him, man might return and be reconciled to himself, whom he causelessly forsook; designing that man shall now become so affected towards himself, through the Mediator; and firstly therefore towards the Mediators own person, as he was before, and ought to have been towards himself immediately.

That it was not agreeable to Gods wisedom, truth, and legal justice, to treat with Man a Sinner, in order to his recovery, but through a Mediator: and that therefore he was pleased in wonderfull mercy, to constitute and appoint his own Son Jesus Christ God-man, unto that Office and Undertaking; that, through him, man might return and be reconciled to himself, whom he causlessely forsook; designing that man shall now become so affected towards himself, through the Mediator; and firstly therefore towards the Mediators own person, as he was before, and ought to have been towards himself immediately.