The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

1. The Standing of it. 2. The Deliverance of it.

1. The Standing of it, and that in a threefold respect.

1. The Standing of it in Being. Sin filled it with so much spiritual stench and rottenness, that the Power of the holy One would not have endured to have been there supporting and bearing it up in Being, if the Death of Christ had not been [Greek or Hebrew], a sweet-smelling savour, Eph. 5. 2. to perfume and sweeten it; the World was as it were new founded by the Cross, or else Sin, that abomination of desolation, would have dashed it down about the Sinners Ears; Justice (if unsatisfied) would not have spared so much as the Stage whereon Sin was acted, but hurled it down into its first Nullity. Christ upholdeth all things by the word of his power, Heb. 1. 3. Before Sins entry they stood merely by the word of his Power, but since they stand not without the blood of his Cross. Redemption is the great Buttress ⟨p. 253⟩of Creation; as it rears up the little World after its fall, so it keeps up the great World from falling.

1. The Standing of it in Being. Sin filled it with so much spiritual stench and rottenness, that the Power of the holy One would not have endured to have been there supporting and bearing it up in Being, if the Death of Christ had not been 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a sweet-smelling savour,