A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

and it is an observation which deserves to be much thought upon, and carries great consolation in it, that God was as forward for mans deliverance by Christ, as Christ was to undertake it, that the heart of the great God is as much engaged in love to poor men that have undone themselves that there may be saved, as the heart of Christ was in […] through that great work in which it was accomplished; or otherwise it had been frustrated and come to nothing.

and it is an observation which deserves to be much thought upon, and carries great consolation in it, that God was as forward for mans deliverance by Christ, as Christ was to undertake it, that the heart of the great God is as much engaged in love to poor men that have undone themselves that there may be saved, as the heart of Christ was in 〈…〉 through that great work in which it was accomplished; or otherwise it had been frustrated and come to nothing.

2. Because, though God in his Justifying of a sinner, looks at, and requires the full merit of Christs Obedience, yet he looks not at any Righteousness at all in the person who is to be justified. He hath no consideration of the person in this case, nor is it enquired about him, whether he have been a greater or lesser sinner, whether he hath lived a longer or a shorter time in a state of alienation from the life of Christ; but this Righteousness is as readily and willingly applied to a chief sinner, such as Paul confesseth himself to have been, 1 Tim. 1. 15. as to one that hath not sinned so notoriously but been more restrained in his conversation: he as well, and as soon justifies one that hath been a blasphemer, ⟨p. 78⟩a Drunkard, an Idolater, a profane Sabbath-breaker, Swearer, &c. as him that hath been a civil and moral man, see what a crew Paul reckons up.