The Fountain of Life Opened

Secondly, We shall gather up all that hath been said, to establish §2the truth of Christs satisfaction. Proving the reality of it, that it is not an improper, catachrestical, fictitious satisfaction; by divine acceptilation, as some have very diminutively called it; but real, proper, and full; and as such accepted by God. For his blood is the blood of a surety, Heb. 7.22. who came under the same obligations of the Law with us, Gal. 4.4. and though he had no sin of his own, yet standing before God, as our surety; the iniquities of us all, were laid upon him. Isai. 53.6. and from him did the Lord with great severity exact satisfaction for our sins, Rom. 8.32. punishing them upon his soul. Matth. 27.46. and upon his body, Act. 2.23. and with this obedience ⟨p. 172⟩of his Son is fully pleased and satisfied. Eph. 5.2. And hath in token thereof raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand. 1 Tim. 3.16. And for his righteousness sake acquitted and discharged believers, who shall never more come into condemnation. Rom. 8.1, 34. All this is plain in Scripture, and our faith in the satisfaction of Christ, is not built on the wisdom of man; but the everlasting sealed truth of God. Yet such is the perverse nature of man, and the pride of his heart; that whilst he should be humbly adoring the grace of God in providing such a surety for us; he is found accusing the justice, and diminishing the mercy of God; and raising all the objections which Satan and his own heart can invent, to overturn that blessed foundation upon which God hath built up his own honour, and his peoples salvation.