1. The Aversion of Gods Wrath is ascribed to his Death; according to the Words of the Apostle: Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood, 1to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, to declare, I say, at this time his Righteousness, that he might be Just, and the justifier of him that believed in Jesus. A Propitiation [Greek or Hebrew], The Title of the Mercy-Seat,2 partly in regard it covered the Tables of the Law which were broke by us, to signify that by ⟨p. 256⟩Him Pardon is procured for us, and principally because God was rendered Propitious by the sprinkling the Blood of the Sacrifice on it, and exhibited himself there, as on a Throne of Grace, favourable t• his people. For this Reason he gives the name of the Figure to Christ, for he alone answers the Charge of the Law, and interposes between Justice and our Guilt, and by his own Blood hath reconciled God to us. Now the design of God in this appointment was to declare his Righteousness, that is, that Glorious Attribute that inclines him to punish Sinners: For in the Legal Propitiations, although the guilt of Men was publicly declared in the Death of the Sacrifices, yet the Justice of God did not fully appear, since he accepted the Life of a Beast in Compensation for the Life of a Man: but in the Death of Christ he hath given the most clear Demonstration of his Justice, a sufficient Example of his Hatred to Sin, Condemning it, and Revenging himself upon it, in the Person of his beloved Son; that the whole World may acknowledge 'twas not from any Inadvertency, but merely by the Dispensation of his Wisdom and Goodness that he forbore so long. And by the Death of Christ he hath declared that Glorious Mystery which no created Understanding could ever have conceived, that he is inflexibly just, and will not suffer sin to pass unpunished, and that he justifies those who are guilty in themselves, if by a purifying Faith they receive Christ for Pardon. The same Apostle tells us, that Christ hath given himself for us, *an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour, Eph. 5.2. He is qualified as a Priest, whose Office it was to present to God an offering for Appeasing ⟨p. 257⟩his Anger; He gave himself; the Oblation that is added to his Death, gives the complete Formality of a Sacrifice to it;
1. The Aversion of Gods Wrath is ascribed to his Death; according to the Words of the Apostle: Whom God hath set forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood, 1to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, to declare, I say, at this time his Righteousness, that he might be Just, and the justifier of him that believed in Jesus. A Propitiation 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, The Title of the Mercy-Seat,2 partly in regard it cover'd the Tables of the Law which were broke by us, to signifie that by ⟨p. 256⟩Him Pardon is procur'd for us, and principally because God was rendred Propitious by the sprinkling the Blood of the Sacrifice on it, and exhibited himself there, as on a Throne of Grace, favourable t• his people. For this Reason he gives the name of the Figure to Christ, for he alone answers the Charge of the Law, and interposes between Justice and our Guilt, and by his own Blood hath reconciled God to us. Now the design of God in this appointment was to declare his Righteousness, that is, that Glorious Attribute that inclines him to punish Sinners: For in the Legal Propitiations, although the guilt of Men was publickly declared in the Death of the Sacrifices, yet the Justice of God did not fully appear, since he accepted the Life of a Beast in Compensation for the Life of a Man: but in the Death of Christ he hath given the most clear Demonstration of his Justice, a sufficient Example of his Hatred to Sin, Condemning it, and Revenging himself upon it, in the Person of his beloved Son; that the whole World may acknowledge 'twas not from any Inadvertency, but meerly by the Dispensation of his Wisdom and Goodness that he forbore so long. And by the Death of Christ he hath declared that Glorious Mystery which no created Understanding could ever have conceived, that he is inflexibly just, and will not suffer sin to pass unpunish'd, and that he justifies those who are guilty in themselves, if by a purifying Faith they receive Christ for Pardon. The same Apostle tells us, that Christ hath given himself for us, *an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour, Eph. 5.2. He is qualified as a Priest, whose Office it was to present to God an offering for Appeasing ⟨p. 257⟩
- 1Rom. 3.5·26.
- 2Heb. 5.5.
- *[Greek or Hebrew] an allusion to the peace-offering and sin-offering; for the truth of both is in the death of Christ, which appeases God, and obtains the Blessings that depend on his favour.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 an allusion to the peace-offering and sin-offering; for the truth of both is in the death of Christ, which appeases God, and obtains the Blessings that depend on his favour.
