A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…

Again, None had Power to have gone through with the Work, if they had had Wisdom to have found out a way: There was so much to be done in order to mans Recovery, that it would have undone all the World, if they had undertaken it. The Powers of Hell must be over-come, the Curse of the Law, ⟨p. 128⟩and Wrath of the Law-Giver, must be born; Sin that was so strong and fast in the Heart of Man, must be subdued, Grace and Holiness, against which Man had an emnity, must be infused; and what Power less then Omnipotent could effect either of these? God who discovered great Power in creating the World of nothing, discovered much greater in redeeming the World when it was worse then nothing. In the former he had no opposition, in the latter, his Law, Justice, the Devils of Hell; nay, Man himself did resist and oppose him: It had been impossible for the Mediator to have born up, and held out under all those contests with the Powers of Darkness, the Malediction of the Law, the Fury of his Father, if the Almighty everlasting Arms had not been under him, Isa. 42.1, 2. Behold my Servant, whom I upheld, Isa. 49.8, 9. Therefore you read of Power, great Power, mighty Power, greatness of Power, exceeding greatness of Power, put forth in the Work of Redemption; Eph. 1.19, 20. And what is the exceeding greatness of his Power to us-ward? who believe according ⟨p. 129⟩to the working of the mighty Power which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead. And the Redeemer is called The Power of God, 1 Cor. 1.24. The Arm of the Lord, Isa. 53.1. His Strength, Isa. 27.5. Once more we read, Thy Redeemer is mighty, the Lord of Hosts is his Name, Jer. 50.34.