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3. Pray, Brethren, see what our Saviour saith upon this Account; Greater Love hath no Man than this, that a Man lay down his ¹Life for his Friends. Can this Expression intend any thing more or less, than in the room or stead of his Friend, or die for them? Thus Christ died. Even the Just for the Unjust; the Just in the place or ²stead of the Unjust, or us the guilty Persons. Hereby perceive we the Love of God; Because he laid down his Life for us, we ought to lay ⟨p. 238⟩down our Life for the Brethren. These Texts fully prove the Notion; He that lays down his Life for his Brother, or dies for the Brethren, dies in their stead to save them from Death, as some have done: For scarcely for a righteous Man will one die; yet peradventure ³for a good Man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his Love towards […], in that while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us. Now then seeing Christ underwent Death, and bore that Punishment that was due for Sins, and there being no Cause in himself why he should suffer that Pain and Penalty, it unavoidably follows, that it was because he stood in our Place charged with our Offences.

3. Pray, Brethren, see what our Saviour saith upon this Account; Greater Love hath no Man than this, that a Man lay down his ¹Life for his Friends. Can this Expression intend any thing more or less, than in the room or stead of his Friend, or die for them? Thus Christ died. Even the Just for the Vnjust; the Just in the place or ²stead of the Unjust, or us the guilty Persons. Hereby perceive we the Love of God; Because he laid down his Life for us, we ought to lay ⟨p. 238⟩down our Life for the Brethren. These Texts fully prove the Notion; He that lays down his Life for his Brother, or dies for the Brethren, dies in their stead to save them from Death, as some have done: For scarcely for a righteous Man will one die; yet peradventure