Religion & morality > Harmony of the divine attributes displayed in the redemption and salvation of sinners by Jesus Christ

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foul from going down to the pit, I have found a ranfom.
Now, he can juftify the fmner, and be juft in fo doing,
while he draws him into Chrift by faith, Rom. iii. 25,
26.—'Thus you fee the reafons of the meeting. In a
word, they meet together upon a defign to bring the
greateft good out of the greateft evil, and the hiRheft
glory out of the deepeft mifery, to the praife of all God’s
glorious perfections.
: The fifth thing propcfed, was the application, in a
few inferences. ■ Is it fo, that in falvation of finners by
Jefus Chrift, the glorious Attributes and per!e£hons of
God do thus harmonioufiy confpire, and embrace each
other? Then hence we may fee,
r. What a dreaoful evil fin is, which fets all the At-
tributes of God, as it were at odds, and puts all the world
into confufion, and every thing out of order; it fets hea¬
ven and earth, and all things in them at variance, one
againfl: another. To think light of fin, is to think light
of this glorious meeting of divine Attributes, that met
together to break this rebellion, and take order with this
horrid infurreClion againft heaven. O ! what a great mat¬
ter is the falvation of a finner! Ere that can take place,
this grand meeting muft be called ; all the injured Attri¬
butes of God muft have ?hi honourable reparation. Juf-
tice muft be fatisfied, Truth vindicated, Righteoufnefa
cleared; and in order to *il this, a f.rety na ift be pro¬
vided, even a God in our nature; the guilt muft be im ¬
puted to him, and the iniquity t'f us all muft be laid upon*
him; and then a bloody tragedy muft be aCted upon his
foul ahd body, till he fink to death tifider the weight of
infinite wrath. But,
2. Hence, fee what a wonderful perfon our Lord Je¬
fus Chrift is, in whom fo many wonders meet together;
It is in him, that Mercy and Truth, Kighteoufnels and
Peace, do meet together, and kifs each other; here all
the bright perfections of the divin* nature do gloncufty
confpire; here is the bright conftelladon of all the divide
Attributes fiiining forth in him, and eveiy ftar performs
its revolution in this orb. Behold in him the bright glo¬
ry and excellency of God’s grace and love, a whole In-
nity in concert, to perform each petfon, his own part, and