A price of Redemption; We are not redeemed with Silver and Gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19, 20. He paid a price for our redemption, that so he might discharge the debt of our sins which lay upon us, Rom. 6. 23. Gen. 2. 17. What day soever thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye. And partly by this means to satisfy the justice of God, who had threatened according to the curse of the Law, that cursed is every one that ⟨p. 171⟩continues not in all things written in the Law to do them: Behold, saith the Lord, I set before you life and death; obey it and live, do it not, and dye; This is the sanction and ratification of the Law of God throughout the books of Moses. And therefore that he might satisfy the Law, and the wrath of God (Ezek. 18. 20. The soul that sinneth, it shall dye) that he might discharge the debt we ran into, and satisfy for our defects, it was necessary to pay this price of redemption, to save us from death, and all evils that drew on death. And consequently therefore he hath saved us from sin, Rev. 1. 5. He hath loved us, and washed us from our sins in his blood. He hath redeemed us also from the world, Gal. 1. 4. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world: and he hath also given himself unto the death, that he might destroy through death, him that had the power of death, that is the Devil, Heb. 2. 14. So this is one part of the reason, and the sum of the ends why Christ gave himself to be slaughtered, and his life as a price of redemption to redeem us from evil, for redemption is from captivity and bondage from sin and Satan, and the world. This was a principal end of his death; but it was but part of it. Here is a price to redeem us from evil, from so many captivities wherein we were overwhelmed. But there is a price given of purchase, to the praise of his glory, Ephes. 1. 14. It is a price of purchase of some glorious possession: and for that end it was also given in a principal manner. Now what is the purchased possession which the Lord hath given his blood as a price to pay? Truly as the Lord hath redeemed us from the three great enemies of our souls, so he hath purchased the three greatest blessings the sons of men are capable of, and they are the greatest blessings they can reach to.
A price of Redemption; We are not redeemed with Silver and Gold, but with the precious bloud of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19, 20. He paid a price for our redemption, that so he might discharge the debt of our sinnes which lay upon us, Rom. 6. 23. Gen. 2. 17. What day soever thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye. And partly by this means to satisfie the justice of God, who had threatned according to the curse of the Law, that cursed is every one that ⟨p. 171⟩continues not in all things written in the Law to doe them: Behold, saith the Lord, I set before you life and death; obey it and live, do it not, and dye; This is the sanction and ratification of the Law of God throughout the books of Moses. And therefore that he might satisfie the Law, and the wrath of God (Ezek. 18. 20. The soul that sinneth, it shall dye) that he might discharge the debt wee ran into, and satisfie for our defects, it was necessary to pay this price of redemption, to save us from death, and all evils that drew on death. And consequently therefore he hath saved us from sinne, Rev. 1. 5. He hath loved us, and washed us from our sinnes in his bloud. He hath redeemed us also from the world, Gal. 1. 4. Who gave himselfe for our sinnes, that he might deliver us from this present evill world: and he hath also given himselfe unto the death, that he might destroy through death, him that had the power of death, that is the Devill, Heb. 2. 14. So this is one part of the reason, and the sum of the ends why Christ gave himselfe to be slaughtered, and his life as a price of redemption to redeem us from evill, for redemption is from captivity and bondage from sinne and Satan, and the world. This was a principal end of his death; but it was but part of it. Here is a price to redeem us from evil, from so many captivities wherein we were overwhelmed. But there is a price given of purchase, to the praise of his glory, Ephes. 1. 14. It is a price of purchase of some glorious possession: and for that end it was also given in a principal manner. Now what is the purchased possession which the Lord hath given his bloud as a price to pay? Truly as the Lord hath redeemed us from the three great enemies of our souls, so he hath purchased the three greatest blessings the sonnes of men are capable of, and they are the greatest blessings they can reach to.
