Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

THE Apostle tells us 1 Pet. 2. 24. That in his own self he bare our sins in his own body on the tree; and chap. 3. 18. That he suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us unto God. But this seems somewhat strange unto Reason; where is the Justice, where is the Equity, that the just should suffer for the unjust? Where is Divine Righteousness herein? For it was an act of God, The Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all, Isa. 53. 6. The Equity hereof, with the grounds of it, must be here a little enquired into.

THE Apostle tells us 1 Pet. 2. 24. That in his own self he bare our sins in his own body on the tree; and chap. 3. 18. That he suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us unto God. But this seems somewhat strange unto Reason; where is the Justice, where is the Equity, that the just should suffer for the unjust? Where is Divine Righteousness herein? For it was an act of God, The Lord hath laid on him the iniquites of us all, Isa. 53. 6. The Equity hereof, with the grounds of it, must be here a little enquired into.

FIRST of all, it is certain that all the Elect, the whole Church of God, fell in Adam, under the curse due to the transgression of the Law. It is so also, that in this curse, Death both Temporal and Eternal was contained. This curse none could undergo and be saved. Nor was it consistent with the Righteousness, or Holiness, or Truth of God, that sin should go unpunished. Wherefore there was a necessity upon a supposition of Gods Decree to save his Church, of a Translation of punishment; namely, from them who had deserved it, and could not bear it, unto one who had not deserved it, but could bear it.