Ib. p. 168.
The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son.—John v. 22. Should the Father judge the world he must judge as the maker and sovereign of the world, by the strict rules of righteousness and justice, and then how could any sinner be saved?
(Why? Is mercy incompatible with righteousness? How then can the Son be righteous?)
But he has committed judgment to the Son, as a mediatory king, who judges by the equity and chancery of the Gospel.
This article required exposition incomparably more than the simple doctrine of the Trinity, plain and evident
simplici intuitu
, and rendered obscure only by diverting the mental vision by terms drawn from matter and multitude. In the Trinity all the
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