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

what clothed a Deity with humane flesh? what made Eternity become the birth of time (when come to its parturient fullness) what moved the heart of the Son of God to pitch his Tabernacle among men?¹ what engaged him to the enterprise of redeeming sinners? what moved him so earnestly to contest with a perishing world? led him at last to the Cross, made him content to become a sacrifice to God, a spectacle to Angels and men in a bitter reproachful death, inflicted by the Sacrilegious hands of those whom he was all this while designing to save. The amazed soul now sees into the bottom of this design; understands why it self was not made a prey to Divine revenge; whence it was that it perished not in its enmity against God; that he was not provoked, by the obstinacy of its disobedience, and malice of its unbelief, beyond the possibility of an atonement; why he so long suffered its injurious neglects of him, and unkind repulses of a merciful Saviour; and persuaded till at last he overcame, made the averse heart yield, the careless disaffected soul cry out, Where is my God? now a Christ or I perish? All this is now resolved into love; And the adoring soul sees how well the effects agree to their cause, and are owned by it. Nothing but heaven it self that gives the sense, can give the notion of this pleasure.

what cloathed a Deity with humane flesh? what made Eternity become the birth of time (when come to its parturient fulness) what mov'd the heart of the Son of God to pitch his Tabernacle among men?¹ what ingaged him to the enterprize of redeeming sinners? what mov'd him so earnestly to contest with a perishing world? led him at last to the Cross, made him content to become a sacrifice to God, a spectacle to Angels and men in a bitter reproachful death, inflicted by the Sacrilegious hands of those whom he was all this while designing to save. The amazed soul now sees into the bottom of this design; understands why it self was not made a prey to Divine revenge; whence it was that it perish't not in its enmity against God; that he was not provoked, by the obstinacy of its disobedience, and malice of its unbelief, beyond the possibility of an atonement; why he so long suffered its injurious neglects of him, and unkind repulses of a merciful Saviour; and perswaded till at last he overcame, made the averse heart yield, the careless disaffected soul cry out, Where is my God? now a Christ or I perish? All this is now resolved into love; And the adoring soul sees how well the effects agree to their cause, and are owned by it. Nothing but heaven it self that gives the sense, can give the notion of this pleasure.