Sermons preached

(2.) No Worthiness in us. For when his Love moved him to give Christ for us, he had all Mankind in his prospect and view, as lying in the polluted Mass, or in a State of Sin and Misery, and then provided a Redeemer for them. God at first made a perfect Law, which forbade all Sin upon pain of Death. Man did break this Law, and still we break it day by day in every Sin. Now when Men lived, and went on in Sin and Hostility against God, he was pleased then to send his Son to assume our Nature, and die for our Transgressions. Therefore the giving of a Redeemer was the Work of his free Mercy. Man loved not God, yea was an Enemy to God, when Christ came to make the Atonement; 1 Joh. 4. 10. Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our Sins. Col. 1. 21. And you that were sometimes alienated, and Enemies in your Minds by wicked Works, yet now hath he reconciled. We were senseless of our Misery, careless of our Remedy, so far from deserving, that we desired no such matter. God's Love was at the beginning, not ours.

(2.) No Worthiness in us. For when his Love moved him to give Christ for us, he had all Mankind in his prospect and view, as lying in the polluted Mass, or in a State of Sin and Misery, and then provided a Redeemer for them. God at first made a perfect Law, which forbad all Sin upon pain of Death. Man did break this Law, and still we break it day by day in every Sin. Now when Men lived, and went on in Sin and Hostility against God, he was pleased then to send his Son to assume our Nature, and die for our Transgressions. Therefore the giving of a Redeemer was the Work of his free Mercy. Man loved not God, yea was an Enemy to God, when Christ came to make the Atonement; 1 Ioh. 4. 10. Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the Propitiation for our Sins. Col. 1. 21. And you that were sometimes alienated, and Enemies in your Minds by wicked Works, yet now hath he reconciled. We were sensless of our Misery, careless of our Remedy, so far from deserving, that we desired no such matter. God's Love was at the beginning, not ours.