The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

1. Our Sins were laid upon Christ. 2. He suffered the same punishment (for the main) that was due for these Sins. 3. He suffered it in our stead. 4. Suffering in our stead, he satisfied God's Vindictive Justice and Minatory Law. 5. These satisfied, God is reconciled.

1. Our sins were laid upon Christ. Whilst the Chains are upon the Captive, Captivity is unavoidable; whilst Sin is ⟨p. 224⟩on the Sinner, Redemption is impossible; God therefore gave Sin a remove from its proper Ubi, I will remove iniquity in one day, saith he, Zech. 3. 9. that is, in the day of the Messiah, Ver. 8. But how far will he remove it? The Psalmist tells us, as far as the East is from the West, Psal. 103. 12. and so he did, he removed it from us, who were in occasu Adami, as far as Christ, who is oriens Sol Justitiae; by this remove all our sins met upon him, as the Prophet speaks, Isai. 53. 6. Never such a concourse of Sins as here, Sins of all weights, Pence and Talents; Sins of all magnitudes, Gnats and Camels; Sins of various degrees, Frailties and Presumptions; Sins of vast distances as far remote in place as the parts and quarters of the Earth, and in time as the Morning and Evening of the World met all together upon him; he is the Lamb of God that takes or bears away the sin of the world, Joh. 1. 29. he saith not Sins, but Sin; because all the Sins of the World were as it were made up into one burden, and so laid upon him. Sins past were present to him; for there was a [Greek or Hebrew], a Transmission of them unto him, Rom. 3. 25. there was indeed an [Greek or Hebrew], a Remission, as to the faithful, but a [Greek or Hebrew], a Transmission as to