The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

Now our Debt was not pecuniary but penal: And as in civil Cases, where one becomes Surety for another, he is obliged to pay the Debt, for in the estimate of the Law they are but one person; So the Lord Jesus Christ entering into this relation, He sustained the person of Sinners,¹ and became judicially one with them, and according to the order of Justice, was liable to their punishment. The displeasure of God was primarily and directly against the Sinner, but the effects of it fell upon Christ, who undertook for him. The Apostle tells us, That when the Fullness of time came, God sent his Son, made under the Law, ²that he might redeem them that were under the Law. He took our Nature & Condition: He was made under the Law Moral and Ceremonial. The directive part of the Moral Law He fulfilled by the Innocency of his Life; the penalty he satisfied as our Surety, being under an Obligation to save us. And he appeared as a Sinner in his subjection to the Law of Moses. ³That Hand-writing was against us; He therefore entered into the Bond that we had forfeited. In his Circumcision He signed it with those drops of Blood, which were an earnest of his shedding the rest on the Cross. For whosoever was Circumcised, became a Debtor to the whole Law. And we may observe, 'tis said, That as Moses lifted up the brazen Serpent, so the Law ⟨p. 241⟩of which Moses was a type and Minister, lifted up the Messiah on the Cross.

Now our Debt was not pecuniary but penal: And as in civil Cases, where one becomes Surety for another, he is obliged to pay the Debt, for in the estimate of the Law they are but one person; So the Lord Jesus Christ entring into this relation, He sustained the person of Sinners,¹ and became judicially one with them, and according to the order of Justice, was liable to their punishment. The displeasure of God was primarily and directly against the Sinner, but the effects of it fell upon Christ, who undertook for him. The Apostle tells us, That when the Fulness of time came, God sent his Son, made under the Law,