Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

1. Hence was he fit ^rto suffer, and able to bear, whatever was due unto us; in that very Action, wherein the Son of man gave himself a ransom for many Math. 20. 28. God Redeemed his Church with his own blood Act. 20. 28 and therein was the love of God seen that he gave his life for us. I Joh. 3. 16. on this account was there room enough in his breast to receive the points of all the ^sswords that were sharpened by the Law against us, and strength enough in his shoulders, to bear the burden of that Curse that was due to us. Thence was he so willing to undertake the work ⟨p. 74⟩of our Redemption, Heb. 10. 7, 8. Lo I come to do thy will O God; because he knew his ability to go through with it. Had he not been man, he could not have suffered, had he not been God, his suffering could not have availed either himself or us, he had not satisfied; the suffering of a mere man, could not bear any proportion to that which in any respect was infinite. Had the Great & Righteous God gathered together all the sins that had been Committed by his Elect from the foundation of the world, & searched the bosoms of all that were to come to the end of the world, & taken them all, from the sin of their nature, to the least deviation from the rectitude of his most holy Law, and the highest provocation of their Regenerate and Unregenerate Condition, and laid them on a mere holy innocent Creature, O how would they have overwhelmed him, and buried him for ever out of the presence of Gods love! Therefore doth the Apostle premise that glorious description of him to the purging of our sin. He hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world; who being the brightness of his Glory, and the express image of his person, up-holding all things by the word of his power, hath purged our sins.