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                             (40) each Attribute its own work, and Christ the image of the invisible God set forth to be a glorious theatre, on which men and angels might see the splendour of the transaction He is the brightness of the Father's glory and the express image of his person ; Here is the great mystery ot Godliness., God manifested in the flesh, and all his Attributes meeting together and kissing each other, incur Immanuel God-man. There are two.things meet in Christ, which should make him wonderful to us: i'he one is, all our sins meet together in him, that they may be condemned, according to that word, isa. Iiii.6. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all, or made them to meet on him ; one other is, all the Attributes of God meet in him, that they may be glorified: And indeed there is no saving or satisfying knowledge of any property of God but what is to be had in Christ to see God to be a merciful, just, true, righteous, good and holy God, is neither saving nor a satisfying light: unless we see these Attributes meeting in Christ for our salvation: and to see this, is to see the glory of God, in the face of Christ. Here see the glory of divine mercy! What is pardoning mercy? It is God’s free, gracious acceptance of a sinner, upon satisfaction made to his justice in the blood of Jesus. Nor is there any discovery id meicy, but as relating to the fatisb.&ion or juftice, IconGftent with the gloiy of God : Mercy cannot be seen savingly, but as meeting with justice in Christ. Here also we see the glory of divine truth, in the exact accomplishment of all his threatenings and promises; that original threatening and commination whence all other threatening's flow, Gen. ii. 17. in the day thou eatest there of thou shalt surely die, backed with a curse; for cursed is every one that continues not in all things, &c is in him accomplished fully, and the truth of God therein cleared to our salvation, while he tasted death for us, and was made a curse for us; so that in every threatening his truth is made Glorious; And as to the promises, they are all yea, and Amen in Christ Jesus, to the glory of God by us, 2 Cor. 20" And so of all the other Attributes of God, they are made glorious and exalted in Christ to our salvation. whence when Christ desired his Father to glorify his                           F