First, the justice of God the Father is provoked, and the poor sinner seeth his divine justice incensed, and that he is not able to bear it: and §2secondly, Satan lays heavy things against him, and lays claim to him: and §3thirdly sin is powerful and tyrannous, and would still domineer over him. Now the soul groans under all these, and saith, Oh, who will deliver me? Then the Lord Jesus comes into rescue him: and when the heart is content to be freed from sin, Christ makes answer saying, Be thou comforted thou poor broken hearted sinner, I will undertake for thee, and I will satisfy Gods divine justice, ⟨p. 163⟩that it shall not execute wrath upon thee, and I will answer Satan's accusations against thee, and I will subdue all thy sins that they shall not prevail against thee to thy destruction, but thou shalt be delivered. First, for divine justice: the soul seeth a holy God, that will not put up the wrong that hath been done against him, but will have his glory here in his humiliation, or else in his confusion hereafter. Now when divine justice makes out against a poor sinner, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and puts in bail for him:1 As it is with a man that is arrested, by the Sergeant, he may have this liberty, to put in a bail; so when the wrath of the Almighty drinks up a mans spirits, and drags down his soul to hell in his own apprehension, then the Lord promiseth the poor soul to see all satisfied. Comfort your selves you broken hearts, the Lord Christs bail will be taken for more debts then you owe: nay, the Father desires no better surety; as he himself saith, Mat. 3.13. This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: he doth not say with whom I am well pleased, but in whom, that is, in him, and all that come to God the father in his name. Thus the Lord Jesus Christ doth, and so a sinner is freed from that wrath of the Almighty. Secondly, the power of Satan is crushed, so that he shall never more ⟨p. 164⟩be able to be Lord and Ruler over the soul truly humbled: but wheresoever the Lord Jesus Christ comes, Satan gives way to the supreme authority of the Lord Christ; and the Lord Jesus makes all to vanish, and no more to appear or have any thing to do in the heart: as he himself saith in Rev. 1.18. I have the keys of Hell and of death.
First, the justice of God the Father is provoked, and the poore sinner seeth his divine justice incensed, and that he is not able to beare it: and §2secondly, Sathan lays heavie things against him, and layes claime to him: and §3thirdly sinne is powerfull and tyranous, and would still domineere over him. Now the soule groanes under all these, and saith, Oh, who will deliver me? Then the Lord Iesus comes into rescue him: and when the heart is content to bee freed from sinne, Christ makes answer saying, Be thou comforted thou poore broken hearted sinner, I will undertake for thee, and I will satisfie Gods divine justice, ⟨p. 163⟩that it shall not execute wrath upon thee, and I will answer Sathans accusations against thee, and I will subdue all thy sinnes that they shall not prevaile against thee to thy destruction, but thou shalt bee delivered. First, for divine justice: the soule seeth a holy God, that will not put up the wrong that hath beene done against him, but will have his glory here in his humiliation, or else in his confusion hereafter. Now when divine justice makes out against a poore sinner, the Lord Iesus Christ comes in and puts in baile for him:1 As it is with a man that is arrested, by the Sergeant, he may haue this liberty, to put in a baile; so when the wrath of the Almighty drinkes up a mans spirits, and dragges downe his soule to hell in his owne apprehension, then the Lord promiseth the poore soule to see all satisfied. Comfort your selves you broken hearts, the Lord Christs baile will be taken for more debts then you owe: nay, the Father desires no better surety; as hee himselfe saith, Mat. 3.13. This is my beloved Sonne, in whom I am well pleased: hee doth not say with whom I am well pleased, but in whom, that is, in him, and all that come to God the father in his name. Thus the Lord Iesus Christ doth, and so a sinner is freed from that wrath of the Almighty. Secondly, the power of Satan is crushed, so that he shall never more ⟨p. 164⟩bee able to bee Lord and Ruler over the soule truely humbled: but wheresoever the Lord Iesus Christ comes, Satan gives way to the supreame authority of the Lord Christ; and the Lord Iesus makes all to vanish, and no more to appeare or have any thing to doe in the heart: as hee himselfe saith in Rev. 1.18. I have the keys of Hel and of death.
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