210 LETTERS FROM THE BACONIANA. 



tract of your deceased lord, and send back a few notes 

 upon it. 



In the first page, line 7&amp;gt;* are these words : 

 &quot; I believe that God is so holy, pure, and jealous, that 

 it is impossible for him to be pleased in any creature, though 

 the work of his own hands ; so that neither angel, man, nor 

 world, could stand, or can stand, one moment in his eyes, 

 without beholding the same in the face of a Mediator ; and 

 therefore, that before Him, with whom all things are pre 

 sent, the Lamb of God was slain before all worlds ; without 

 which eternal counsel of his, it was impossible for Him to 

 to have descended to any work of creation ; but he should 

 have enjoyed the blessed and individual society of Three 

 Persons in Godhead, only, for ever.&quot; 



This point I have heard some divines question, whether 

 God, without Christ, did pour his love upon the creature ? 

 and I had sometime a dispute with Dr. Sharp, f of your 

 university, who -held, that the emanation of the Father s 

 love to the creature, was immediate. His reason, amongst 

 others, was taken from that text, &quot; So God loved the world 

 that he gave his only begotten Son.&quot; Something of that 

 point I have written amongst my papers, which on the 

 sudden I cannot light upon. But I remember that I held 

 the point in the negative ; and that St. Austin, in his com 

 ment on the fifth chapter to the Romans, gathered by Beda, 

 is strong that way. 



In page 2, line the 9th to the 13th,J are these words: 

 &quot; God, by the reconcilement of the Mediator, 



* That is, in Resuscitatio, p. 117, 1. 8, to for ever in 

 page 118. 



f The same, 1 think, who was committed to the Tower, 

 having taught Hoskins his Allusion to the Sicilian Vespers. 

 See Reliqu. Wootton, p. 434. 



J That is in Resuscitatio, p. 118, I. 9, to refer. 



