The application of redemption

The Lord Christ as the Second Adam, and the Head ¹of those whom he shall bring back, and beget unto God the Father, in the virtue of his death he brings a Release from under the hand of Divine Justice, to reverse that Commission which sin and Satan had, to fasten the soul to the Creature, and so to sin, and by sin and the Creature to rule in it: For when Adam jarred and jostled against the Law, the Law was strong and hard, i. e. just; the Law and the Lord in Justice pushed Adam away from him, sin takes occasion to fall in, and by that advantage (when Divine Justice, by reason of his provocation, pushed him away) it carries him to the Creature, and the Devil by sin and the Creature challengeth Sovereignty over him: The Lord Jesus by and in the virtue of his death, suffering and satisfying Divine Justice, delivers both himself and his from the Authority of sin: God raised him from the Grave, because it was impossible be should be held by the sorrows and power of the grave, and therefore not by the power of sin and darkness, Acts, 2. 24. for they had no power but by virtue of Divine Justice; which being now appeased, their Commission is reversed and repealed: By Death Christ destroyed him that had the power of Death, that is, the Devil, Heb. 2. 14. So our Saviour gives the ground of comfort and release to his, ⟨p. 677⟩I was dead, and […] alive, and behold I have the keys of Hell and Death, Rev. 1. 18. The Lord says to sin, hands off, that soul is mine, and doth therefore by the power of his Spirit, not only stop the work-of sin, but over-bears, and abolisheth, and takes off the right of Rule which Satan by sin challenged, he brings the soul off from the Sovereignty of sin, into another Jurisdiction.

The Lord Christ as the Second Adam, and the Head ¹of those whom he shal bring back, and beget unto God the Father, in the vertue of his death he brings a Release from under the hand of Divine Justice, to reverse that Commission which sin and Satan had, to fasten the soul to the Creature, and so to sin, and by sin and the Creature to rule in it: For when Adam jarred and justled against the Law, the Law was strong and hard, i. e. just; the Law and the Lord in Justice pushed Adam away from him, sin takes occasion to fall in, and by that advantage (when Divine Justice, by reason of his provocation, pushed him away) it carries him to the Creature, and the Devil by sin and the Creature challengeth Soveraignty over him: The Lord Jesus by and in the vertue of his death, suffering and satisfying Divine Justice, delivers both himself and his from the Authority of sin: God raised him from the Grave, because it was impossible be should be held by the sorrows and power of the grave, and therefore not by the power of sin and darkness,