Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

2. He is pleased with the Terms. God who is the Supreme Governor of the world, and the offended Party, stood upon these Terms, that the Honour of his governing Justice should be secured, and the Repentance and Reformation of man carried on. Strictly these must be done, or else man must lye under his Eternal Displeasure; if one be done and not the other, no Reconciliation can ensue. Now that God is highly pleased with the satisfaction and compensation made to his governing Justice, Heb. 10. 6, 7. In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast no pleasure. Then said I, lo I come to do thy will O God. Ver. 10. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all. God rejected all other sacrifices, but was fully satisfied with this, as enough to expiate the sin of Man. Christ delighted to give it, and God delighted to accept of it. He paid a perfect ransom for us, besides or above which he craved no more, but rested fully content in it; for the other, the Renovation of Mans Nature, to put him into a capacity ⟨p. 142⟩to serve and please God, for God would not admit us to Privileges without change of heart, and disposition, Acts 5. 31. God exalted him to be a prince and saviour, to give repentance and remission of sins. In short God is so satisfied with these Terms, that (1.) He seeketh no farther amends for all their wrongs, Rom. 3. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past. (2.) No farther price for what they need, 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. Ye are not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without spot and blemish. The repentance of a sinner is pleasing to him, there is Joy in Heaven; Luke 15. 7. Joy in the presence of the angels over one sinner that is converted. A Feast was made at the return of the Prodigal. As I live saith the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of a sinner. Our Conversion is more pleasing to God, than our Destruction.