The Fountain of Life Opened

¹Fifthly, the effect and fruit of this his satisfaction is our freedom, ransom, or deliverance from the wrath and curse due to ⟨p. 171⟩us for our sins. Such was the dignity, value, and completeness of Christs satisfaction; that in strict Justice it merited our redemption, and full deliverance. Not only a possibility that we might be redeemed, and pardoned; but a right whereby we ought to be so. As the learned Dr. Twiss judiciously argues. If he be made a curse for us, we must then be redeemed from the curse, according to justice: so the Apostle argues, Rom. 3.25, 26. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood; to 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 God might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. Mark the design and end of God in exacting satisfaction from Christ; it was to declare his righteousness, in remission of sin to believers; and lest we should lose the Emphatical word, he doubles it; to declare I say his righteousness. Every one can see how his mercy is declared in remission; but he would have us take notice that his justification of Believers is an act of Justice; and that God as he is a just God, cannot condemn the believer, since Christ hath satisfied his debts. This attribute seems to be the main bar against remission; but now, it's become the very ground and reason why God remits. Oh how comfortable a text is this! Doth Satan or Conscience set forth thy sin in all its discouraging circumstances and aggravations? God hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation. Must justice be manifested, satisfied, and glorified? So it is in the death of Christ, ten thousand times more than ever it could be in thy damnation. Thus you have a brief account of the satisfaction made by Jesus Christ.

¹Fifthly, the effect and fruit of this his satisfaction is our freedom, ransom, or deliverance from the wrath and curse due to ⟨p. 171⟩us for our sins. Such was the dignity, value, and compleatness of Christs satisfaction; that in strict Justice it merited our redemption, and full deliverence. Not only a possibility that we might be redeemed, and pardoned; but a right whereby we ought to be so. As the learned Dr. Twiss judiciously argues. If he be made a curse for us, we must then be redeemed from the curse, according to justice: so the Apostle argues,