A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

Secondly; The Metaphor will also hold good, as to our Remedy and Recovery, how we come out of this Debt. A Debtor that is insolvent, is undone, unless there be some means found out to satisfy the Creditor: So we must altogether lie under the Wrath of God, unless Satisfaction be made. Therefore Jesus Christ, in the

1. Place comes under the Notion of a Surety. Because he took the Debt of Man upon himself, therefore, Heb. 7. 22. he is called, The Surety of a better Testament. When Christ undertook the Business of our Salvation, he did in effect say, as Paul to Philemon; Vers. 18. If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine Account: So did Jesus Christ, in effect say to God; Let me be made a Sin, and made a Curse for them. He that was a Judg, was willing to become a Party, and to pay what we owed. David in the Type of Christ, saith, Psal. 69. 4. I restored that which I took not away. He did not take away any Honour from God: It was we that robbed God of the Glory of his Justice, Authority, and Truth; that trampled them under our Feet: but Christ made restitution and amends to God.

2. Having condescended to become our Surety, he made full Satisfaction, by suffering the Punishment which was due to us; Isa. 53. 4. Surely he hath born our Griefs, and carried our Sorrows. That which we should have born upon our own Backs, and would have crushed us for ever, that ⟨p. 351⟩he hath born, and he hath carried. Christ was to be the Sinner in Law, and was to suffer in our stead. Solomon hath a Passage concerning Suretyship;