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The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…
The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons lately preached, in which the errors of the present day about reconciliation and justification are detected / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by S. Bridge, 1698
THE DISPLAY OF Glorious Grace OR THE Covenant of Peace Opened: In S… › Sermon 2
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2. Christ must be Man, because he must die; now God as God (I mean the Godhead) could not die; Man must die to satisfy offended Justice for the Breach of the Law; therefore Christ must be Man and die: And by Virtue of the Union of the Divine Nature with the Humane Nature in his Person, the Death of Christ was a full Satisfaction to the Justice of God.
2. Christ must be Man, because he must die; now God as God (I mean the Godhead) could not die; Man must die to satisfie offended Justice for the Breach of the Law; therefore Christ must be Man and die: And by Vertue of the Union of the Divine Nature with the Humane Nature in his Person, the Death of Christ was a full Satisfaction to the Justice of God.
3. He must be one with us, or else how could his Obedience be imputed to us? For as our Sins was imputed to him, so his Righteousness is imputed to us.
4. He must be Man, that he might be a Merciful High-Priest, being touched with the feeling of our Infirmity, he must have access to both, ⟨p. 43⟩he was to deal with God for Man, and for God with Man.