Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

The reasons for this position are these: first, Punishment, with what mitigation soever qualified is in suo formally, in the nature of it a thing ⟨p. 138⟩Legal, namely the execution of the Law, for divine Law is ever the square and rule of that Justice of which punishment is the effect and work. Now all those on whom the execution of the Law doth take any effect, may truly be said to be so far under the Law in regard of the sting and curse thereof, (for the curse of the Law is nothing else but the evil which the Law pronounceth to be inflicted, so that every branch and sprig of that evil, must needs bear in it some part of the nature of a Curse, even as every part of water hath in it the nature of water) but all the godly are wholly delivered from all the sting and malediction of the Law, Christ^b is unto us the end of the Law, abolishing the shadows of the Ceremonial, the the Curses of the Moral;^c we are no more under the Law, but under Grace, under the precepts, but not under the Covenant, under the^d obedience, but not under the bondage of the Law: unto the^e righteous there is no Law, that is, there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ: we are dead unto the Law by the Body of Christ, it hath not the least power or dominion over us. Secondly, the most proper nature of a punishment is to satisfy an offended Justice, but Christ bearing the iniquity of us all in his Body on the Tree, did therein make a most sufficient and ample satisfaction to his Fathers wrath, leaving nothing wherein we should make up either the measure or the ⟨p. 139⟩virtue of his sufferings, but did himself perfectly save us: for an infinite person suffering, and the value of the suffering depending on the dignity of the Person, it must needs be that the satisfaction made by that suffering must be likewise infinite, and by consequence most perfect. Lastly, if we consider (as^a