A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

tells us, That God sent forth Christ to be a Propitiation, through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past, through God's forbearance, that he might be Just, and the Justifier of them that believe in Jesus. As if the Apostle had said, God could not be Just, if he should justify Sinners that deserve his Wrath, unless he had sent forth Jesus Christ into the World to become a Propitiation and Sacrifice to his Justice for their Sins: For having threatened in his unalterable word to inflict vengeance upon all that are guilty, his Truth obliged him to this dreadful severity upon all, since all are guilty. But that Christ taking on him the guilt of sinners, by his own undergoing the wrath of God, and the Curse of the Law, hath so fully appeased Divine Justice, that now God, though he doth not punish Sinners in themselves, can yet be ⟨p. 66⟩Just and the Justifier of Sinners, therefore he sent forth Christ to be a Propitiation. God's Eternal Purpose to glorify his Justice in the punishing sin, and yet to glorify his Grace and Mercy in pardoning Sinners, wrought this great effect of sending Christ into the World, whereby two such different ends might with Infinite Wisdom be accomplished. So that Christ who is the cause of all our Happiness and Mercy, is yet himself the effect of God's Purpose and Intent to pardon sin. And what can be said more to advance the greatness of this Mercy, a Mercy so great, that one of the Fathers, St. Gregory by Name, doubted whether it were more Misery or Happiness that Adam fell, since his Sin and Fall occasioned such a wonderful Redeemer, and such a Glorious Salvation; Felix culpa, says he, O Happy Fall, that obtained such a Redeemer.

tells us, That God sent forth Christ to be a Propitiation, through Faith in his Bloud, to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins that are past, through God's forbearance, that he might be Just, and the Justifier of them that believe in Jesus. As if the Apostle had said, God could not be Just, if he should justifie Sinners that deserve his Wrath, unless he had sent forth Jesus Christ into the World to become a Propitiation and Sacrifice to his Justice for their Sins: For having threatned in his unalterable word to inflict vengeance upon all that are guilty, his Truth obliged him to this dreadful severity upon all, since all are guilty. But that Christ taking on him the guilt of sinners, by his own undergoing the wrath of God, and the Curse of the Law, hath so fully appeased Divine Justice, that now God, though he doth not punish Sinners in themselves, can yet be