2. As this Price was paid to God, so it was accepted by him for the ends aforesaid. Indeed simply and abstractively from his own Decree he was not bound to accept of this price (though of an immense and infinite value) as for us; I say, as for us; for he might have stood upon the rigour of the Law, Do this and live, transgress this and die in thine own person; the Tables of the Law might never have been put into the Ark, nor covered with a Mercy-seat; but this is the joy of our ⟨p. 279⟩Faith, that he hath accepted it. When Christ was baptized, there was a Voice from Heaven, This is my beloved Son, [Greek or Hebrew], in whom I am well-pleased, Mat. 3. 17. Duo grata vocabula, silius & dilectus, saith an Ancient, and that sweet word [Greek or Hebrew] makes up the third. When Christ was sacrificed, there was a sweet smell to God, Eph. 5. 2. God cries out, I have found a ransom, Joh 33. 24. and Christ, It is finished, Joh. 19. 30. Afterwards when he came into the Grave, off flew the bands of Death, Acts 24. 24. as a pregnant evidence that Justice was satisfied; he was taken from prison and from judgment, Isai. 53. 8. because all was paid; God's Power raised him up, and God's Justice could say nothing against it. And when he was risen from the dead, he raises up the Faith of his Disciples, Why do thoughts arise in your hearts? saith he, Luk. 24. 38. Do you doubt whether I am he who paid down the Price of Redemption? Behold! my hands and my feet; fossus est saccus, & manavit pretium orbis, the Sack of my Humanity was broke, and out run the Price of Redemption. Do you scruple whether that Price were accepted of God or not? Lo! here are the returns of it, I'll breath the holy Ghost upon you, I'll ⟨p. 280⟩betrust the Gospel with you, go preach it to every creature, make the World know, that Redemption, Remission, Grace, Peace, Sanctity, Salvation are the returns of my Blood. And afterwards just at his parting he blessed them and ascended up into heaven; he blessed them, to show that the Curse was gone, and ascended up into heaven to possess the purchase of Glory, and being there, he sate down at God's right hand; his work was now done, and therefore he sate down, and his work was now accepted, and therefore he sate down at God's right hand; there he received gifts for men, and from thence he gave them out again; he gave out what he received, and received what he purchased.
2. As this Price was paid to God, so it was accepted by him for the ends aforesaid. Indeed simply and abstractively from his own Decree he was not bound to accept of this price (though of an immense and infinite value) as for us; I say, as for us; for he might have stood upon the rigour of the Law, Do this and live, transgress this and die in thine own person; the Tables of the Law might never have been put into the Ark, nor covered with a Mercy-seat; but this is the joy of our ⟨p. 279⟩Faith, that he hath accepted it. When Christ was baptized, there was a Voice from Heaven, This is my beloved Son, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in whom I am well-pleased, Mat. 3. 17. Duo grata vocabula, silius & dilectus, saith an Ancient, and that sweet word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 makes up the third. When Christ was sacrificed, there was a sweet smell to God, Eph. 5. 2. God cries out, I have found a ransom, Joh 33. 24. and Christ, It is finished, Joh. 19. 30. Afterwards when he came into the Grave, off flew the bands of Death, Acts 24. 24. as a pregnant evidence that Justice was satisfied; he was taken from prison and from judgment, Isai. 53. 8. because all was paid; God's Power raised him up, and God's Justice could say nothing against it. And when he was risen from the dead, he raises up the Faith of his Disciples, Why do thoughts arise in your hearts? saith he, Luk. 24. 38. Do you doubt whether I am he who paid down the Price of Redemption? Behold! my hands and my feet; fossus est saccus, & manavit pretium orbis, the Sack of my Humanity was broke, and out run the Price of Redemption. Do you scruple whether that Price were accepted of God or not? Lo! here are the returns of it, I'le breath the holy Ghost upon you, I'le ⟨p. 280⟩betrust the Gospel with you, go preach it to every creature, make the World know, that Redemption, Remission, Grace, Peace, Sanctity, Salvation are the returns of my Blood. And afterwards just at his parting he blessed them and ascended up into heaven; he blessed them, to shew that the Curse was gone, and ascended up into heaven to possess the purchase of Glory, and being there, he sate down at God's right hand; his work was now done, and therefore he sate down, and his work was now accepted, and therefore he sate down at God's right hand; there he received gifts for men, and from thence he gave them out again; he gave out what he received, and received what he purchased.
