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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54347	The mystery of the Gospel unvail'd wherein is plainly shewed and proved, that the man Christ Jesus has honoured all the perfections of God more than Adam and all his posterity could have done, had they continuted in their primitive state of innocency / first preached, and now published by Samuel Pack.	Pack, Samuel.	1691 (1691)	Wing P151; ESTC R32208	12,469	26

meritorious for the Satisfaction of the Justice of an infinite God over all for though I am not of the mind of Osiander and his Followers that we are justified by the imputation of the essential Righteouss of Christ as God yet it was the essential Righteousness of the Godhead of Christ that did make the Active and Passive Obedience of his Manhood infinitely meritorious as being in personal Union therewith for which cause the Blood of Christ's Humanity is called God's Blood Acts. 20.28 4. It was needful that our Redeemer should be God over all that he might be a suitable good to our Souls which are the very Breath of God over all and whose vast desires are such that none but God over all can satisfie them The World is empty of what it promises and enticing with what it has and therefore a wicked Man's desires after it are enlarged as Hell but can find no real satisfaction therein because they are below the excellent nature of his Soul but when God's Jehosaphats have a great confluence of outward Enjoyments God comes in the Creatures and so cures them of their emptiness and he come with them and cures them of their enticing property and between both he makes them Blessings to us and they yield unto us sweet satisfaction As the Spirit of the Living God enables us to make a sanctified use of them to the Glory of God from whom we do receive them and besides as the Soul of Man is a Spiritual Substance 't is only Christ who is a Spiritual Good that can be a suitable Good unto it and as the Soul of Man is an immortal Being so Christ is a suitabl● Good unto it 5. It was needful that our Redeemer should be God over all that he might exalt our nature which was debased by sinning against God over all for however our first Parents were honourable Creatures as they came out of God's Hand having his Image stamped on them yet Man in precious honour lodged not a Night 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psalm 49.12 but fell the same Day upon which he was created and by his Fall he made himself but little better thanthe Devils who was made but little lower than the Angels For in our first Creation there was such serenity in our Understanding that we knew the greatest Dimensions of our Maker's Will so far as was needful for our acknowledgment of his Sovereignty in our universal Obedience to his revealed Will and there was such a degree of Sanctity in Man's Will that it was ready to command that good to be done which the Understanding did dictate to be good and the Affections were ready to embrace that good which the Will commanded and the sensitive Soul which takes up its Residence in the Organical parts of the Body through which it issues forth by several Acts and receives in from several Objects were so sanctified as to make a Spiritual use of whatever was presented unto them But alas Man cannot be known by any Description that might have been given of him in his State of Innocency for now his Understanding is clouded with gross Egyptian Darkness and his Will is filled with Stubbornness and a Contumacious Spirit against the Lord and his Affections are irregularly set upon wrong Objects so that Man cannot be known in his lapsed State by any Description that might have been given of him before his Fall for which cause the Lord was please to say concerning Man that Man is as one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from him that is one from the Devil through whose Temptation Man fell for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ever denotes the third Person singular and is so used four times in one Verse Zech. 10.4 whereas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denotes the first Person plural Now forasmuch as the Master-piece of God's Tetrestrial Workmanship had by Sin debased it self below the perishing Beast it was of absolute necessity that his Redeemer should be God over all to exalt his degraded Nature 6. It was needful that Man's Redeemer should be God over all that he might procure for us a new Covenant-right in God over all for by our Fall we lost not only our right in the Creature but that wherein our greatest loss did principally consist was that we lost our right and propriety in God now God being a Blessing of infinite worth it was neeful that a Person of infinite worth should by the merits of his Blood procure it for us 7. It was needful that our Reedeemer should be God over all because he had such Enemies to conquer for us that none but God over all could conquer for we had the Wrath of God the Curse of the Law and all the powers ofDarkness against us all which could never have been conquered but by God over all And had not these Enemies of our Souls been conquered by our Persons which could not have been expected but by a Redeemer in our nature we had been miserable for ever but to the eternal praise of God's Grace he was pleased to lay help upon one that was mighty who led Captivity Captive by conquering all his and our Enemies in our Nature Thus having shewed why it was needful that our Redeemer should be God over all I shall proceed to the Application 1. It may inform us of that Personal Union that is between the Father ●●…l 2.2 Son and Holy Ghost ●●…h ● 7 for the Father is God over all and the Son is God over all and the Holy Ghost is God over all and yet there are not three Gods over all but one God over all each Person in the Godhead having the whole essence of the Godhead in himself 2. If Christ be God over all then see from hence the infinite love of God the Father in giving to us such a Redeemer who is God over all If Jacob could say he was unworthy of the least of God's Mercies how are we obliged to him for Christ who is the greatest Mercy that he could have bestowed on us On which account we may say concerning the Love of the God of Knowledge as Job said concerning the knowledge of the God of Love That it is as high as Heaven what can we do 't is deeper than Hell What can we know the measures thereof are longer than the Earth and broader than the Sea 3. See the infinite love of Christ to sinners for if Christ had not been God over all his Death would have signified nothing for our comfort and being God over all John 3.16 Gal. 2.20 there could be no compelling of Christ to assume our nature but as God the Father did freely give his Son for sinners so God the Son did as freely give himself up unto Death for us 4. If Christ be God over all this may inform us of the Humility of Christ that he was pleased to take our Nature into a Personal Union with his Godhead after we had greatly degraded it by sin Oh what