The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

Direct. 4. Remember how Christ himself, even when he came to deliver us from Gods Law, did yet come to verify his threatening in the matter of it, and to be a sacrifice for sin, and public demonstration of Gods Justice.

Direct. 4. Remember how Christ himself, even when he came to deliver us from Gods Law, did yet come to verifie his threatning in the matter of it, and to be a sacrifice for sin, and publick demonstration of Gods Justice.

For this end was Christ manifested, to destroy the works of the Devil, 1 John 3.5, 8. And the first and great work of the Devil was, to represent God as a liar, and to persuade Eve not to believe his threatenings, and to tell her, that though she ⟨p. 301⟩sinned, she should not die. And though God so far dispensed with it, as to forgive man the greatest part of the penalty, it was by laying it on his Redeemer; and making him a sacrifice to his Justice: that his Cross might openly confute the Tempter, and assure the world, that God is just, and that the wages of sin is death, Rom. 6.23. though eternal life be the gift of God through Jesus Christ.

For this end was Christ manifested, to destroy the works of the Devil, 1 John 3.5, 8. And the first and great work of the Devil was, to represent God as a lyar, and to perswade Eve not to believe his threatnings, and to tell her, that though she ⟨p. 301⟩sinned, she should not die. And though God so far dispensed with it, as to forgive man the greatest part of the penalty, it was by laying it on his Redeemer; and making him a sacrifice to his Justice: that his Cross might openly confute the Tempter, and assure the world, that God is just, and that the wages of sin is death,