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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
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Treatise › Chapter 12: God incomparable in the Work of Redemption; He can do all things.
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None had Wisdom enough to find out a Remedy: Had the Creatures had pity enough, and kindness enough, they had not wisdom enough to make Justice and Mercy meet together, and Righteousness and Grace kiss each other. If God should have offered Man his Pardon and Life, upon Condition, that he with Angels should consult, and find out some way to satisfy his infinite Justice, that was offended by Sin; Alas, poor man must of necessity have perished; what Creature was able to undertake the satisfaction of infinite Justice? It would have Bankrupt them all to satisfy for one of the smallest Sins. And who could have thought of God, the Creator to undertake it? who durst have presumed to entertain such a motion in his Heart? Could it have entered into the mind of Men or Angels, that the Law might be fulfilled in its Commands and Curse, the Glory of Divine Justice and Holiness salved, and miserable man eternally saved.
None had Wisdom enough to find out a Remedy: Had the Creatures had pity enough, and kindness enough, they had not wisdom enough to make Justice and Mercy meet together, and Righteousness and Grace kiss each other. If God should have offered Man his Pardon and Life, upon Condition, that he with Angels should consult, and find out some way to satisfie his infinite Justice, that was offended by Sin; Alas, poor man must of necessity have perished; what Creature was able to undertake the satisfaction of infinite Justice? It would have Bankrupt them all to satisfie for one of the smallest Sins. And who could have thought of God, the Creator to undertake it? who durst have presumed to entertain such a motion in his Heart? Could it have entered into the mind of Men or Angels, that the Law might be fulfilled in its Commands and Curse, the Glory of Divine Justice and Holiness salved, and miserable man eternally saved.
No Creature would have thought of a way to reconcile the Justice and Mercy of God, no Creature could have thought of any way for it, nay, no Creature durst have thought of such a way as God hath found out. No, He that made the World by his Wisdom, Psal. 104.24. when it had unmade it self; new made it by his Wisdom: Hence the Redemption of man is called [Greek or Hebrew], the manifold, the curious, the embroidered Wisdom of God; such Wisdom as passed the Knowledge of Angels,