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VII. The goodness of God is that essential property of his nature, which inclines him to regard and delight in himself, and to deal kindly with his creatures.
—As it inclines him to affect, esteem, and delight in himself, or one divine person in another,
—and to care for, to promote the welfare of creatures, and delight in and rejoice over them, it is called love, because love to himself and to his creatures,
gives rise to, and animates his whole conduct, particularly his work of redemption, 1 John 4:8-10,16,19; Rom 5:8; John 3:16.
—His love, in respect of the objects of it, may be distinguished into that which he bears to himself, Isa 5:16; Lev 10:3; Matt 11:27; John 1:18; John 3:35;
that which he bears to all his creatures as such, Ps 104:31; Gen 1:31; and that redeeming love which he bears to his chosen of mankind, Deut 7:7-8; Deut 33:3; John 3:16; John 15:9-15; John 16:27; John 17:23,26; Rom 5:8,21; Rom 8:32; Gal 2:20; Eph 1:3-8; Eph 2:1-9; Eph 4:8-10,19; Rev 1:5.
—His love to creatures is distinguished into his love willing their welfare, Rom 9:16,18; Exod 33:19; Ps 86:15; his love doing them good, John 3:16; Rom 8:32-39; Ps 5:12; Isa 63:7; Isa 59:8-10; Eph 5:2; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 4:9-10; his love delighting in them, Ps 147:11; Ps 149:4; Ps 35:27; Isa 62:5; Zeph 3:17. These are but the same love exercising itself in different forms.
—God's goodness, as it inclines him to make or supply his creatures, to none of which he owes either being or any thing else, is called bounty, Ps 116:7; Ps 119:17; 1 Kings 3:6.
—As it inclines him to do good to those that are undeserving or ill-deserving, it is called grace, or free favour, Rom 3:24; Rom 5:20-21; Eph 2:5,7-8; Eph 1:6-7; 2 Cor 8-9; Ps 5:12. As it inclines him to pity, help, and provide for, persons in misery, it is called mercy or compassion, Ps 102:8,11-17; Ps 86:5,15; Ps 89:1-2,28; Ps 111:4; Ps 112:4; Rom 9:16,18.
—And as he takes peculiar pleasure in thus manifesting his goodness, in the redemption of men, mercy is attributed to him several hundred times in Scripture, Ps 136; Ps 100; etc. he hath bowels ascribed to him, Isa 63:7,15; Jer 31:20; Hos 11:8; and is represented as full of compassion, Ps 78:38; Ps 86:15; Ps 111:4; Ps 112:4; Ps 145:8.
—And, as his goodness inclines him to forbear for a time, punishing the affronts done him, it is called patience and longsuffering, Rom 2:4; Rom 9:22; Rom 15:7; 2
Pet 3:9,15; Exod 34:6; Ps 86:15. It is most evident, that God is good.
1. The Scriptures in passages innumerable represent him as good,—as only good,—as kind,— gracious, merciful, and longsuffering, Ps 25:8, Ps 36:7; Ps 119:68; Ps145:7-9; Matt 19:17; Isa 63:7; Zech 9:17; Ps 33:15; Ps 107; Ps 136; Ps 34:8; Ps 144:2; Ps 63:3-6; Ps 40:11; Ps 69:16; Joel 2:12-13; Jer 3:13; Eph 2:5,7; Eph 1:6-8; Mic 7:18-20; Neh 9:17; 2 Pet 3:9,15; Exod 34:6- 7.
2.All that goodness which is to be found among creatures,animate or inanimate, rational or irrational,originates from God, Rom 11:36; Ps 119:68; James 1:17; 1 Cor 4:7; Gen 1 2.
3. The goodness of God, is most extensively and clearly manifested in his works of creation,providence, and redemption. In creation it appears,
1. In his forming all creatures in order, that they might share of his kindness and bounty,
—he having no need either of their existence or service, Ps 16:2.
2. In forming such vast multitudes of creatures,
—in such diversified qualities, situations, orders, connections, and mutual dependencies, that the goodness of all might contribute to the advantage of each, Gen 1.
3. In creating angels so many in number, so high in dignity, so excellent in quality, and so capable of enjoying himself, Ps 104:4; Ps 103:20-21.
4. In forming man—his body so beautiful, so marvellously compacted of a multitude of members, and fitted to promote his true happiness,
—his soul endowed with so many excellent faculties, qualifying it for the enjoyment of God himself, as his chief good, and marvellously united to his body, that he might at once partake of an earthly and an heavenly felicity, Gen 2:6-7; and that, by a particular consultation of the divine persons, he was formed in the image of God, Gen 1:26-27;
Gen 9:6; and that his formation was so timed as to come into a world fully fitted and furnished for his immediate happiness, Gen 1-2In providence, God's goodness appears,
1. In his upholding innumerable numbers of creatures in order to render them partakers of his favours, Ps 36:6-7; Zech 9:17; Ps 104; Ps 107; Ps 145; Ps 148.
2. In governing them all, to the best advantage of all in general, Ps 119:68; Ps 104-105; Ps 107; Ps 136; Ps 145; Ps 147-148; Job 37; Job 41.
3. In so distributing his goodness among them, that they may all depend on, and taste it, in each other; and even worms may teach angels and men the mysteries of the Godhead, Job 12:8-9.
4. In his peculiarly kind deportment towards angels and men, while they kept their first estate,—giving them good laws, suited to their natures, and conducive to their happiness; in entering into a covenant of friendship with men; if not also with angels, though not by a representative, Job 38:7; Gen 2:16-17.
5. In permitting sin to enter into the world, chiefly, that it might afford an occasion of opening his infinite treasures of redeeming love and grace, Rom 5:8,20-21; Eph
2:1-8; Eph 1:6-8; Gen 3.
6. In his amazing patience toward sinful men,—in not smiting and even damning them in the very act of sinning, but deferring his vengeance as long as the vindication of his
own perfections and good of his creatures in general can permit, Gen 6:3; Gen 15:13,16; Rom 9:22.
—In repeating his warnings, before he punish or correct, Lev 26; Deut 27-32; Judg 2; 2 Kings 17; Ps 78; Ps 106; Isa 1; Ezek 20; Mal 4; Matt 24; Rev 8-20; etc.
—In inflicting his judgments by progressive degrees, and with an apparent reluctancy, Isa 9-10; Ezek 20; Amos 3-4; Amos 6; Ezra 9:7; Joel 1:3; Judg 10:16; Isa 1:24; Lam 3:33; Hos 6:4-5; Hos 11:8; Ps 78:38.
—And in moderating his judgments, loading men with his favours, notwithstanding many and great provocations, Ps 103:10; Ezra 9:13; Job 11:6; Job 33:27; Isa 57:17-19; Isa 43:24-25; Lam 3:22,31-32; Matt 26-27 with Acts 2-9; Titus 3:3-7.
7. In working an infinity of wonderful and miraculous works for the welfare of persons and nations, Exod 2-20; Deut 32:6; Ezek 20; Neh 9; Ezra 1-10; Esther 1-10; Matt 1-28; Luke 1-24; John 1-21; Acts 1-28; Rom 15:19; Heb 2:4.
—The histories or predictions of Scripture are full of them.
8. In his wonderful care of our world, notwithstanding its present defilement with sin,
—as of irrational creatures, Ps 145:9; Ps 147:8-9; Ps 104:11
- 22; Deut 22:7; Deut 25:4; Lev 22:28.—of slaves, Exod 21:2-10,27; Deut 23:15
—of criminals, Deut 21:22-23; Deut 25:1-3.
—of the poor, of widows, and fatherless children, Exod 23:11; Lev 19:13,33-34; Lev 25:35,39,47; Ps 9:18; Ps 10:14,18; Ps 12:5; Ps 35:11; Ps 41:1-3; Ps 68:5,10; Ps 82:3; Ps 69:33; Ps 72:4,13; Ps 107:41; Ps 109:31; Ps 132:15; Ps 146:9; Exod 22:22; Deut 14:29; Deut 10:18; Deut 16:11,14; Deut 24:17,19-21; Deut 26:12-13; Prov 15:25; Prov 19:17; Prov
23:11,18; Isa 1:17,23; Jer 7:6; Zech 7:10; Jer 49:11; Hos 14:3; James 1:27.
—of wicked men, Matt 5:45; Ezek 20; Acts 14:16-17; Jon 3; Jon4:11; 1 Kings 21:29; Ezek 29:18-20.
—of societies, in dictating or suggesting proper rules of government to them, putting part of his own honour and authority on their magistrates for their benefit, Ps
107:31-32; Jer 18:9; Rom 13:1-6; 1 Tim 2:1-2; Titus 3:1; 1 Pet 2:13- 14,17; Ps 82:9. In so timing his favours, particularly deliverances, that they become doubly valuable.
—Delays of them till we be brought to an extremity, afford us opportunities of acting faith, andencouraging ourselves in him alone, John 11:15-44; 2 Chron 20:7,12;
Ps 42-43,
—and granting them in the very crisis of extremity, stirs us up to improve our new covenant interest in him, Ps 123:3; Ps 44:23-26; Exod 15:1-2; Ps 103; Ps 116; Ps 118; Ps 40; Ps 13; Ps 18.
—Earthly comforts are cut off, to prepare us for his intended spiritual favours, Ps 102:23-24; Ps 142:4-5.
—And remarkable deliverances afforded to prevent future calamities. Thus, the destruction of the Egyptians,and Israel's deliverance at the Red Sea, made the hearts of the
Canaanites to melt, Josh 9:9-10; Josh 2:9-11. In the origin, the impetration, and the application of redemption, thegoodness of God still more gloriously appears.
—In its origin, it appears,
1. In that absolutely free and infinitely abundant grace in God himself is the only primary cause of it, John 3:16; 1 John 4:9-10,19; Rom 5:8,20-21; Eph 2:4,7.
2. In that the redeeming work was begun an infinity of ages before we were ruined, Eph 1:4-5; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 1:2; 1 Pet 1:19-20; Prov 8:23,31; Matt 25:34.
3. In that, moved by mere free love, all the divine persons heartily joined in the contrivance and plan of it, and took their respective share of the work,
—the Father to exert the grace,
—the Son to advance the merit,
—and the Holy Ghost to apply the purchased benefits;
—the Father to make the exceeding great and precious promises,
—the Son to ratify them in his obedience and death, and purchase the things promised,
—and the Holy Ghost to put them, and all the blessings which they contain, into our possession;
—the Father to adopt us for his children,
—the Son to redeem us for his mystical members,
—and the Holy Ghost to renew and sanctify our heart, and make us meet habitations for God, Prov 8:23-31; Ps 40:6-8; Isa 48:16; Isa 53:10-12; Isa 61:1-3;Isa 49:1-6.
—In the impetration of our redemption, God's goodness appears,
1. In that the deliverance is infinitely more important, costly, sure, and delightful, than creation itself, Eph 1:3-8; Eph 2:1-8; Rev 1:5-6; Rev 5:9-10.
2. That, not fallen angels, whose nature is of more importance and dignity, but fallen men are delivered, Heb2:14,16; Jude 6.
3. That the only begotten Son of God is the Redeemer and Surety of such mean, sinful, and infamous creatures, John 3:16; 1 John 4:9-10.
4. That he, by the most complete obedience, and the most dreadful, but voluntary sufferings, magnified his Father's law, and satisfied his justice, that he might open an abundant egress for displaying his favours to usward, Heb2:10; Heb 5:8; Heb 13:12; Heb 1:3; Gal 3:13; 2 Cor 5:21; Isa 53:4-5,10; Isa 42:21; Rom 8:3-4; Rom 10:4.
5. That he thus manifested his love, after men had, for four thousand years, continued in the mostuninterrupted, horrid, outrageous, and progressive rebellion against
him, Gal 4:4; Gen 3 through Mal 4; Rom 3:10-19; Rom 1:18-32; Rom5:6-10,20-21.
6. That notwithstanding God's most dreadful curse lay upon Christ from his conception till his death, the Holy Ghost marvellously furnished him for, and supported him under his
arduous work, John 3:34; Heb 9:14.
7. That God accepted this satisfaction due from us, from his own Son in our stead,—justified and glorified him as our Representative, and constituted him our
advocate, that our faith and hope might be in himself, Rom 3:25-26; Rom 5:6-11,15-21; Rom 8:3-4,32-34; Rom 4:25; Rom 10:4; Isa 50:7,9; Isa 52:13-15; Isa 53:2-12; John 4:9-10; John 2:1-2; Eph 5:2; Gal 2:20; 1 Pet 1:18-21; 1 Tim 3:16; Heb 7:25. In the application of this purchased redemption, the goodness of God is manifested,
1. In that all the blessings of it are lodged in the hands of Christ, our elder brother, as Administrator of the new covenant, Col 1:19; Ps 68:18
—As it inclines him to affect, esteem, and delight in himself, or one divine person in another,
—and to care for, to promote the welfare of creatures, and delight in and rejoice over them, it is called love, because love to himself and to his creatures,
gives rise to, and animates his whole conduct, particularly his work of redemption, 1 John 4:8-10,16,19; Rom 5:8; John 3:16.
—His love, in respect of the objects of it, may be distinguished into that which he bears to himself, Isa 5:16; Lev 10:3; Matt 11:27; John 1:18; John 3:35;
that which he bears to all his creatures as such, Ps 104:31; Gen 1:31; and that redeeming love which he bears to his chosen of mankind, Deut 7:7-8; Deut 33:3; John 3:16; John 15:9-15; John 16:27; John 17:23,26; Rom 5:8,21; Rom 8:32; Gal 2:20; Eph 1:3-8; Eph 2:1-9; Eph 4:8-10,19; Rev 1:5.
—His love to creatures is distinguished into his love willing their welfare, Rom 9:16,18; Exod 33:19; Ps 86:15; his love doing them good, John 3:16; Rom 8:32-39; Ps 5:12; Isa 63:7; Isa 59:8-10; Eph 5:2; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 4:9-10; his love delighting in them, Ps 147:11; Ps 149:4; Ps 35:27; Isa 62:5; Zeph 3:17. These are but the same love exercising itself in different forms.
—God's goodness, as it inclines him to make or supply his creatures, to none of which he owes either being or any thing else, is called bounty, Ps 116:7; Ps 119:17; 1 Kings 3:6.
—As it inclines him to do good to those that are undeserving or ill-deserving, it is called grace, or free favour, Rom 3:24; Rom 5:20-21; Eph 2:5,7-8; Eph 1:6-7; 2 Cor 8-9; Ps 5:12. As it inclines him to pity, help, and provide for, persons in misery, it is called mercy or compassion, Ps 102:8,11-17; Ps 86:5,15; Ps 89:1-2,28; Ps 111:4; Ps 112:4; Rom 9:16,18.
—And as he takes peculiar pleasure in thus manifesting his goodness, in the redemption of men, mercy is attributed to him several hundred times in Scripture, Ps 136; Ps 100; etc. he hath bowels ascribed to him, Isa 63:7,15; Jer 31:20; Hos 11:8; and is represented as full of compassion, Ps 78:38; Ps 86:15; Ps 111:4; Ps 112:4; Ps 145:8.
—And, as his goodness inclines him to forbear for a time, punishing the affronts done him, it is called patience and longsuffering, Rom 2:4; Rom 9:22; Rom 15:7; 2
Pet 3:9,15; Exod 34:6; Ps 86:15. It is most evident, that God is good.
1. The Scriptures in passages innumerable represent him as good,—as only good,—as kind,— gracious, merciful, and longsuffering, Ps 25:8, Ps 36:7; Ps 119:68; Ps145:7-9; Matt 19:17; Isa 63:7; Zech 9:17; Ps 33:15; Ps 107; Ps 136; Ps 34:8; Ps 144:2; Ps 63:3-6; Ps 40:11; Ps 69:16; Joel 2:12-13; Jer 3:13; Eph 2:5,7; Eph 1:6-8; Mic 7:18-20; Neh 9:17; 2 Pet 3:9,15; Exod 34:6- 7.
2.All that goodness which is to be found among creatures,animate or inanimate, rational or irrational,originates from God, Rom 11:36; Ps 119:68; James 1:17; 1 Cor 4:7; Gen 1 2.
3. The goodness of God, is most extensively and clearly manifested in his works of creation,providence, and redemption. In creation it appears,
1. In his forming all creatures in order, that they might share of his kindness and bounty,
—he having no need either of their existence or service, Ps 16:2.
2. In forming such vast multitudes of creatures,
—in such diversified qualities, situations, orders, connections, and mutual dependencies, that the goodness of all might contribute to the advantage of each, Gen 1.
3. In creating angels so many in number, so high in dignity, so excellent in quality, and so capable of enjoying himself, Ps 104:4; Ps 103:20-21.
4. In forming man—his body so beautiful, so marvellously compacted of a multitude of members, and fitted to promote his true happiness,
—his soul endowed with so many excellent faculties, qualifying it for the enjoyment of God himself, as his chief good, and marvellously united to his body, that he might at once partake of an earthly and an heavenly felicity, Gen 2:6-7; and that, by a particular consultation of the divine persons, he was formed in the image of God, Gen 1:26-27;
Gen 9:6; and that his formation was so timed as to come into a world fully fitted and furnished for his immediate happiness, Gen 1-2In providence, God's goodness appears,
1. In his upholding innumerable numbers of creatures in order to render them partakers of his favours, Ps 36:6-7; Zech 9:17; Ps 104; Ps 107; Ps 145; Ps 148.
2. In governing them all, to the best advantage of all in general, Ps 119:68; Ps 104-105; Ps 107; Ps 136; Ps 145; Ps 147-148; Job 37; Job 41.
3. In so distributing his goodness among them, that they may all depend on, and taste it, in each other; and even worms may teach angels and men the mysteries of the Godhead, Job 12:8-9.
4. In his peculiarly kind deportment towards angels and men, while they kept their first estate,—giving them good laws, suited to their natures, and conducive to their happiness; in entering into a covenant of friendship with men; if not also with angels, though not by a representative, Job 38:7; Gen 2:16-17.
5. In permitting sin to enter into the world, chiefly, that it might afford an occasion of opening his infinite treasures of redeeming love and grace, Rom 5:8,20-21; Eph
2:1-8; Eph 1:6-8; Gen 3.
6. In his amazing patience toward sinful men,—in not smiting and even damning them in the very act of sinning, but deferring his vengeance as long as the vindication of his
own perfections and good of his creatures in general can permit, Gen 6:3; Gen 15:13,16; Rom 9:22.
—In repeating his warnings, before he punish or correct, Lev 26; Deut 27-32; Judg 2; 2 Kings 17; Ps 78; Ps 106; Isa 1; Ezek 20; Mal 4; Matt 24; Rev 8-20; etc.
—In inflicting his judgments by progressive degrees, and with an apparent reluctancy, Isa 9-10; Ezek 20; Amos 3-4; Amos 6; Ezra 9:7; Joel 1:3; Judg 10:16; Isa 1:24; Lam 3:33; Hos 6:4-5; Hos 11:8; Ps 78:38.
—And in moderating his judgments, loading men with his favours, notwithstanding many and great provocations, Ps 103:10; Ezra 9:13; Job 11:6; Job 33:27; Isa 57:17-19; Isa 43:24-25; Lam 3:22,31-32; Matt 26-27 with Acts 2-9; Titus 3:3-7.
7. In working an infinity of wonderful and miraculous works for the welfare of persons and nations, Exod 2-20; Deut 32:6; Ezek 20; Neh 9; Ezra 1-10; Esther 1-10; Matt 1-28; Luke 1-24; John 1-21; Acts 1-28; Rom 15:19; Heb 2:4.
—The histories or predictions of Scripture are full of them.
8. In his wonderful care of our world, notwithstanding its present defilement with sin,
—as of irrational creatures, Ps 145:9; Ps 147:8-9; Ps 104:11
- 22; Deut 22:7; Deut 25:4; Lev 22:28.—of slaves, Exod 21:2-10,27; Deut 23:15
—of criminals, Deut 21:22-23; Deut 25:1-3.
—of the poor, of widows, and fatherless children, Exod 23:11; Lev 19:13,33-34; Lev 25:35,39,47; Ps 9:18; Ps 10:14,18; Ps 12:5; Ps 35:11; Ps 41:1-3; Ps 68:5,10; Ps 82:3; Ps 69:33; Ps 72:4,13; Ps 107:41; Ps 109:31; Ps 132:15; Ps 146:9; Exod 22:22; Deut 14:29; Deut 10:18; Deut 16:11,14; Deut 24:17,19-21; Deut 26:12-13; Prov 15:25; Prov 19:17; Prov
23:11,18; Isa 1:17,23; Jer 7:6; Zech 7:10; Jer 49:11; Hos 14:3; James 1:27.
—of wicked men, Matt 5:45; Ezek 20; Acts 14:16-17; Jon 3; Jon4:11; 1 Kings 21:29; Ezek 29:18-20.
—of societies, in dictating or suggesting proper rules of government to them, putting part of his own honour and authority on their magistrates for their benefit, Ps
107:31-32; Jer 18:9; Rom 13:1-6; 1 Tim 2:1-2; Titus 3:1; 1 Pet 2:13- 14,17; Ps 82:9. In so timing his favours, particularly deliverances, that they become doubly valuable.
—Delays of them till we be brought to an extremity, afford us opportunities of acting faith, andencouraging ourselves in him alone, John 11:15-44; 2 Chron 20:7,12;
Ps 42-43,
—and granting them in the very crisis of extremity, stirs us up to improve our new covenant interest in him, Ps 123:3; Ps 44:23-26; Exod 15:1-2; Ps 103; Ps 116; Ps 118; Ps 40; Ps 13; Ps 18.
—Earthly comforts are cut off, to prepare us for his intended spiritual favours, Ps 102:23-24; Ps 142:4-5.
—And remarkable deliverances afforded to prevent future calamities. Thus, the destruction of the Egyptians,and Israel's deliverance at the Red Sea, made the hearts of the
Canaanites to melt, Josh 9:9-10; Josh 2:9-11. In the origin, the impetration, and the application of redemption, thegoodness of God still more gloriously appears.
—In its origin, it appears,
1. In that absolutely free and infinitely abundant grace in God himself is the only primary cause of it, John 3:16; 1 John 4:9-10,19; Rom 5:8,20-21; Eph 2:4,7.
2. In that the redeeming work was begun an infinity of ages before we were ruined, Eph 1:4-5; 2 Tim 1:9; Titus 1:2; 1 Pet 1:19-20; Prov 8:23,31; Matt 25:34.
3. In that, moved by mere free love, all the divine persons heartily joined in the contrivance and plan of it, and took their respective share of the work,
—the Father to exert the grace,
—the Son to advance the merit,
—and the Holy Ghost to apply the purchased benefits;
—the Father to make the exceeding great and precious promises,
—the Son to ratify them in his obedience and death, and purchase the things promised,
—and the Holy Ghost to put them, and all the blessings which they contain, into our possession;
—the Father to adopt us for his children,
—the Son to redeem us for his mystical members,
—and the Holy Ghost to renew and sanctify our heart, and make us meet habitations for God, Prov 8:23-31; Ps 40:6-8; Isa 48:16; Isa 53:10-12; Isa 61:1-3;Isa 49:1-6.
—In the impetration of our redemption, God's goodness appears,
1. In that the deliverance is infinitely more important, costly, sure, and delightful, than creation itself, Eph 1:3-8; Eph 2:1-8; Rev 1:5-6; Rev 5:9-10.
2. That, not fallen angels, whose nature is of more importance and dignity, but fallen men are delivered, Heb2:14,16; Jude 6.
3. That the only begotten Son of God is the Redeemer and Surety of such mean, sinful, and infamous creatures, John 3:16; 1 John 4:9-10.
4. That he, by the most complete obedience, and the most dreadful, but voluntary sufferings, magnified his Father's law, and satisfied his justice, that he might open an abundant egress for displaying his favours to usward, Heb2:10; Heb 5:8; Heb 13:12; Heb 1:3; Gal 3:13; 2 Cor 5:21; Isa 53:4-5,10; Isa 42:21; Rom 8:3-4; Rom 10:4.
5. That he thus manifested his love, after men had, for four thousand years, continued in the mostuninterrupted, horrid, outrageous, and progressive rebellion against
him, Gal 4:4; Gen 3 through Mal 4; Rom 3:10-19; Rom 1:18-32; Rom5:6-10,20-21.
6. That notwithstanding God's most dreadful curse lay upon Christ from his conception till his death, the Holy Ghost marvellously furnished him for, and supported him under his
arduous work, John 3:34; Heb 9:14.
7. That God accepted this satisfaction due from us, from his own Son in our stead,—justified and glorified him as our Representative, and constituted him our
advocate, that our faith and hope might be in himself, Rom 3:25-26; Rom 5:6-11,15-21; Rom 8:3-4,32-34; Rom 4:25; Rom 10:4; Isa 50:7,9; Isa 52:13-15; Isa 53:2-12; John 4:9-10; John 2:1-2; Eph 5:2; Gal 2:20; 1 Pet 1:18-21; 1 Tim 3:16; Heb 7:25. In the application of this purchased redemption, the goodness of God is manifested,
1. In that all the blessings of it are lodged in the hands of Christ, our elder brother, as Administrator of the new covenant, Col 1:19; Ps 68:18