1. He satisfied God's vindictive Justice. ⟨p. 231⟩God is a righteous God, a God that loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity; nay, he so perfectly hateth it, that his pure eyes cannot look upon it; and his righteous hands cannot but punish it, he will by no means clear the guilty, Exod. 34. 7. not unless his Justice be satisfied, for he is a righteous judge, 2 Tim. 4. 8. so righteous, that he cannot but do right, Gen. 18. 25. his judgment is righteous judgment, Rom. 3. 8. and every sin must have a righteous recompense, Heb. 2. 2. and no wonder, for Sin is an horrible Ataxy, and God will not inordinatum dimittere; the subjection of a rational Creature to its Creator is indispensable. God whilst God must be above, and the Creature whilst a Creature below; and this dependence so far as it is broken off by Sin, must be salved up by punishment, or else God loses his dominion over his Creature. This is that which the Apostle calls [Greek or Hebrew], the righteousness of God, Rom. 1. 32. and this is so naturally in him, that the very Heathens knew it by the light of Nature. The Viper upon Paul's hand made the Barbarians cry out of a [Greek or Hebrew], Acts 28. 4. Now what doth this vindictive Justice require? Not precisely that the Sinner himself ⟨p. 232⟩should be punished, for then Redemption should be impossible; but that the Sin should be punished, and so it was in Christ; he for our debt was cast into Prison, and paid every farthing of it. The damned in Hell pay a little and a little, and can never satisfy, but he paid down the total sum of Sufferings all at once; they are always striving with God's wrath, but he wrestled with it and prevailed: Hence in Isai. 49. Ver. 3. he is called Israel a Prince with God. His Sufferings were so satisfactory to divine Justice, that the pains of death could not hold him, Acts 2. 24. neither could the Prison of Wrath detain him, Isai. 53. 8. and all because there was [Greek or Hebrew], a redemption of transgressions, Heb. 9. 15. that is, a compensation or satisfaction made to divine Justice for them. I go to my Father (saith he) and ye shall see me no more, Joh. 16. 10. Justice did not stop him in his passage to Heaven; neither did his Father send him back again to mend his work. You shall see me no more, no more bleeding under the burden of Sin, no more paying down sufferings to divine Justice, for all's discharged;
1. He satisfied God's vindictive Justice. ⟨p. 231⟩God is a righteous God, a God that loveth righteousness and hateth iniquity; nay, he so perfectly hateth it, that his pure eyes cannot look upon it; and his righteous hands cannot but punish it, he will by no means clear the guilty, Exod. 34. 7. not unless his Justice be satisfied, for he is a righteous judge, 2 Tim. 4. 8. so righteous, that he cannot but do right, Gen. 18. 25. his judgment is righteous judgment, Rom. 3. 8. and every sin must have a righteous recompense, Heb. 2. 2. and no wonder, for Sin is an horrible Ataxy, and God will not inordinatum dimittere; the subjection of a rational Creature to its Creator is indispensable. God whilest God must be above, and the Creature whilest a Creature below; and this dependance so far as it is broken off by Sin, must be salved up by punishment, or else God loses his dominion over his Creature. This is that which the Apostle calls 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the righteousness of God, Rom. 1. 32. and this is so naturally in him, that the very Heathens knew it by the light of Nature. The Viper upon Paul's hand made the Barbarians cry out of a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Acts 28. 4. Now what doth this vindictive Justice require? Not precisely that the Sinner himself ⟨p. 232⟩should be punished, for then Redemption should be impossible; but that the Sin should be punished, and so it was in Christ; he for our debt was cast into Prison, and paid every farthing of it. The damned in Hell pay a little and a little, and can never satisfie, but he paid down the total sum of Sufferings all at once; they are always striving with God's wrath, but he wrastled with it and prevailed: Hence in Isai. 49. Ver. 3. he is called Israel a Prince with God. His Sufferings were so satisfactory to divine Justice, that the pains of death could not hold him,
