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

And the Economy of our Salvation clearly proves, that to preserve the honour of Gods Government, Sin must be punished, that Sinners might be pardoned. For nothing was more repugnant to the Will of God absolutely considered, than the Death of his Beloved Son, and the natural Will of Christ was averse from it. What then moved that Infinite Wisdom, which wills nothing but what is perfectly reasonable, to ordain that event? Why should it take so great a circuit, if the way was so short, that by pure Favour, without Satisfaction, Sin might have been pardoned? Our Saviour declares the necessity of his suffering Death, supposing the merciful Will of his Father to save us, when He saith, That as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believes in him should not perish. 'Tis true, Since God had foretold and prefigured his Death by the oracles and actions under the Law, it necessarily came to pass. But ⟨p. 296⟩to consider things exactly, the unchangeable truth of Types and Prophesies is not the primitive and main reason of the necessity of things, but only a sign of the certainty of the event. In strictness, things do not arrive because of their prediction, but are foretold because they shall arrive. It is apparent there was a Divine Decree before the Prophesies; and that in the Light of God's Infinite Knowledge things are, before they were foretold. So 'tis not said a Man must be of a ruddy complexion, because his Picture is so, but on the contrary, because he is ruddy, his Picture must be so. That Christ by dying on the Cross should Redeem Man, was the reason that the Serpent of brass was erected on a pole to heal the Israelites, and not on the contrary. Briefly, the Apostle supposes this necessity of Satisfaction, as an evident principle, when he proves wilful Apostates to be incapable of Salvation: Because there remains no more Sacrifice for sin. For the consequence were of no force, if sin might be pardoned without Sacrifice, that is, without Satisfaction.

And the Oeconomy of our Salvation clearly proves, that to preserve the honour of Gods Government, Sin must be punisht, that Sinners might be pardoned. For nothing was more repugnant to the Will of God absolutely considered, than the Death of his Beloved Son, and the natural Will of Christ was averse from it. What then moved that Infinite Wisdome, which wills nothing but what is perfectly reasonable, to ordain that event? Why should it take so great a circuit, if the way was so short, that by pure Favour, without Satisfaction, Sin might have been pardoned? Our Saviour declares the necessity of his suffering Death, supposing the merciful Will of his Father to save us, when He saith, That as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whosoever believes in him should not perish. 'Tis true, Since God had foretold and prefigured his Death by the oracles and actions under the Law, it necessarily came to pass. But