Christus in corde, or, The mystical union between Christ and believers considered in its…

The one is this, His flesh and blood, as crucified and satisfactory to Divine justice, do strengthen us against the curse and condemnation of the Law. The moral Law is immortalized by its own intrinsical rectitude; the very frame of mans soul puts him under it; his Reason cannot but be ⟨p. 108⟩bound to know the supreme Truth; his Will cannot but be bound to love the supreme Goodness; the respects in his rational powers towards the Creator, are a Law not to be altered; as long as God is God, and man man, this Law cannot but be obligatory, one jot or tittle of it cannot fall to the ground. To make it the more sacred and venerable, Divine Justice fenced it in with a Threatening, and added a Curse against the transgressor; Cursed is he that continueth not in all the points of it. The wages of sin is death: All men being transgressors, Conscience, as soon as it is awakened, tells a man his own; these and these things are sins, thus and thus thou hast done, the offended Law condemns thee, the wrath threatened hangs over thy head; the consequent of this is, That the heart is full of inward wounds and terrors, it knows not which way to look or turn it self. Take a sinful man in these circumstances, where doth his strength lye? what plea or answer hath he to the broken Law? How, or which way may the Curse be avoided, or the Conscience eased? The only thing can be said, is this, Christ was made a Curse for us; he is the end of the Law for righteousness; he hath made a perfect atonement and satisfaction; this is the Believers hope and confidence, ⟨p. 109⟩this is his great plea and answer to the charge of the Law. Ostendo sidejussorem meum, saith Bishop Davenant, when the Law makes its demands against me, I show my Sponsor Christ who satisfied it. This is lively expressed in Anselms direction for the visitation of the sick, Si Dominus te voluerit judicare, dic, Domine, mortem Domini nostri Jesu Christi objicio inter me & tuum judicium, alitèr tecum non contendo; si tibi dixerit, quia peccator es, dic, mortem Domini nostri Jesu Christi pono inter me & peccata mea, si dixerii tibi, quod meruisti damnationem, dic, Domine; mortem Domini nostri Jesu Christi obtendo inter me & mala merita mea, ipsiusque merita offero pro merito quod ego debuissem habere, nec habeo:

The one is this, His flesh and blood, as crucified and satisfactory to Divine justice, do strengthen us against the curse and condemnation of the Law. The moral Law is immortalized by its own intrinsecal rectitude; the very frame of mans soul puts him under it; his Reason cannot but be