The application of redemption

If the fierceness of the wrath of the Father as the Party directly offended is most cross to the sin of […] sinner, and most dreadful to his soul as guilty, […] the Expression thereof even in that regard, is most fit, by a kind of violence to remove sin from the soul, and to force the soul from it.

If the fierceness of the wrath of the Father as the Partie directly offended is most cross to the sin of 〈…〉 sinner, and most dreadsul to his soul as guilty, 〈…〉 the Expression thereof even in that regard, is most fit, by a kind of violence to remove sin from the soul, and to force the soul from it.

Again, The Father as he sends Christ, […] §2unto him: Because when he so makes himself manifest unto the sinner, he shows the soul whither […] should go, and what certain success it may expect; yea, easy and ready acceptance with the Father, and deliverance from his wrath, and the vengeance deserved if it do go. For when the sinner comes indeed to look upon the ghastly visage of sin, to see the heinousness, and the unsufferable bitterness of that Evil that doth undoubtedly attend upon it. He now Concludes, he must either part from sin, or else he must needs perish in it: it cannot be avoided. Go he must from his sin, but whither to go he cannot tell, that the filth and guilt of sin may be removed from him, and he delivered from the wrath of the Father which he hath deserved by it. When he hath sought far and near for succour and shelter, that Heaven and Earth professeth there is no salvation to be had in us. Holy Ordinances and Duties say, We have heard of the Name thereof, but we neither have it, nor can give it, only we have heard tell there is Salvation in Christ, and in no other Name under Heaven: The […] therefore intends to make out to a Christ, but […] the Question and Doubt meets him, Though Christ can Discharge my Debt, lay down and present ⟨p. 407⟩