The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…

I. It was not of Constraint, I mean, there was no Necessity laid on God, or Jesus Christ thus to Love, Redeem, and Save us in respect of Motive; there was nothing in Man I say, that could move the Affections of God thus to do; and much less was there any thing in us, in respect of Merit; we deserved no such Love, either absolutely, or comparatively, because we were not only undeserving, but an ill-deserving; nay, Hell deserving Creatures, being Rebels to God, Vile, Contemptible, and Base Creatures, even as loathsome as filthy Worms: What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? ¹What is his Deformity, his Pollution, his Filthiness? And O! What Cursed Enmity was there in our Carnal Mind? Yea,² how much like to the Devil were we by Nature?

I. It was not of Constraint, I mean, there was no Necessity laid on God, or Jesus Christ thus to Love, Redeem, and Save us in respect of Motive; there was nothing in Man I say, that could move the Affections of God thus to do; and much less was there any thing in us, in respect of Merit; we deserved no such Love, either absolutely, or comparatively, because we were not only undeserving, but an ill-deserving; nay, Hell deserving Creatures, being Rebels to God, Vile, Contemptible, and Base Creatures, even as loathsome as filthy Worms: What is Man, that thou art mindful of him? ¹What is his Deformity, his Polution, his Filthiness? And O! What Cursed Enmity was there in our Carnal Mind? Yea,² how much like to the Devil were we by Nature?

1. 1Job. 7.
2. 2Rom. 8.7.