The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

6. On these Foundations he undertook to be the Surety of the new Covenant, Heb. 7.22. Jesus was made a Surety of a better Testament. This alone of all the fundamental considerations of the Imputation of our sins unto Christ, I shall insist upon, on purpose to obviate or remove, some mistakes about the Nature of his Suretyship, and the respect of it unto the Covenant, whereof he was the Surety. And I shall borrow what I shall offer hereon, from our exposition of this ⟨p. 254⟩passage of the Apostle on the seventh Chapter of this Epistle not yet published, with very little variation from what I have discoursed on that occasion, without the least respect unto, or prospect of any treating on our present subject.

6. On these Foundations he undertook to be the Surety of the new Covenant, Heb. 7.22. Jesus was made a Surety of a better Testament. This alone of all the fundamental considerations of the Imputation of our sins unto Christ, I shall insist upon, on purpose to obviate or remove, some mistakes about the Nature of his Suretiship, and the respect of it unto the Covenant, whereof he was the Surety. And I shall borrow what I shall offer hereon, from our exposition of this ⟨p. 254⟩passage of the Apostle on the seventh Chapter of this Epistle not yet published, with very little variation from what I have discoursed on that occasion, without the least respect unto, or prospect of any treating on our present subject.

The word [Greek or Hebrew], is no where found in the Scripture, but in this place only. But the advantage which some would make from thence, namely, that it being but one place wherein the Lord Christ is called a Surety, it is not of much force, or much to be insisted on, is both unreasonable and absurd. For (1) this one place is of Divine Revelation, and therefore is of the same Authority with twenty Testimonies unto the same purpose. One Divine Testimony makes our Faith no less necessary, nor doth one less secure it from being deceived, then an hundred.