Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

Thirdly: Though God had given several sad marks of his Justice before, both upon the Angels that fell, clapping upon them the chains of darkness, in the overthrow of Sodom, and the neighbouring Cities, turning them to Ashes; as you may read in Jud. ver. 6, 7. yet never was the exactness and severity of Justice so manifested before, nor ever shall be any more, as it was at the death of Christ. Christ did not only satisfy it fully, but he also honoured it highly, making that Attribute which was once a bar, now to be a bottom of our peace, Rom. 3. 25. Never did such a Person as Christ stand at the Bar of Justice before: The Blood of God was poured out to appease and satisfy it. When Christ suffered, he did both give and take satisfaction; he gave it to the justice of God in dying; he took it in seeing Justice so honoured in his death.

Thirdly: Though God had given several sad marks of his Justice before, both upon the Angels that fell, clapping upon them the chains of darkness, in the overthrow of Sodom, and the neighbouring Cities, turning them to Ashes; as you may read in Jud. ver. 6, 7. yet never was the exactness and severity of Justice so manifested before, nor ever shall be any more, as it was at the death of Christ. Christ did not only satisfie it fully, but he also honoured it highly, making that Attribute which was once a bar, now to be a bottom of our peace, Rom. 3. 25. Never did such a Person as Christ stand at the Bar of Justice before: The Blood of God was poured out to appease and satisfie it. When Christ suffered, he did both give and take satisfaction; he gave it to the justice of God in dying; he took it in seeing Justice so honoured in his death.

Secondly: Another delightful prospect Christ had of the fruit of his sufferings, was the recovery and salvation of all the Elect by his death. And though his sufferings were exceeding bitter, yet such fruit of them as this, was exceeding sweet. Upon this account ⟨p. 159⟩