The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain itThe soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it

1. Man by his Rebellion justly forfeited his Happiness, and the Law exacts precisely the forfeiture. Pure Justice requires the Crime should be punished according to its Quality, much less will it suffer the guilty to enjoy the favour of God. For Sin is not to be considered as an Offence and Injury to a private Person, but the violation of a Law, and a disturbance in the order of Government, so that to preserve the honour of governing Justice, an equivalent reparation was necessary. Till Sin was expiated by a proper Sacrifice, the Divine Goodness was a sealed Spring, and its blessed effects restrained from the guilty Creature. Now the Son of God in our assumed Nature offered up himself a Sacrifice in our stead, to satisfy Divine Justice, and removed ⟨p. 71⟩the Bar, that Mercy might be glorified in our Salvation. The Apostle gives this account of it;¹ We have boldness to enter into the Holiest, by the Blood of Christ, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the Veil, that is to say, his Flesh.

1. Man by his Rebellion justly forfeited his Happiness, and the Law exacts precisely the forfeiture. Pure Justice requires the Crime should be punisht according to its Quality, much less will it suffer the guilty to enjoy the favour of God. For Sin is not to be considered as an Offence and Injury to a private Person, but the violation of a Law, and a disturbance in the order of Government, so that to preserve the honour of governing Justice, an equivalent reparation was necessary. Till Sin was expiated by a proper Sacrifice, the Divine Goodness was a sealed Spring, and its blessed effects restrain'd from the guilty Creature. Now the Son of God in our assumed Nature offered up himself a Sacrifice in our stead, to satisfy Divine Justice, and removed ⟨p. 71⟩the Bar, that Mercy might be glorified in our Salvation. The Apostle gives this account of it;¹ We have boldness to enter into the Holiest, by the Blood of Christ, by a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the Vaile, that is to say, his Flesh.

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