Speculum theologiæ in Christo, or, A view of some divine truths which are either…

with the Corn he was bruised, with the Wine and Oil poured out, with the Lamb slain and roasted in the fire of Gods wrath, and with the Scape-goat driven into the wilderness of desertion, crying out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? His sufferings were very many and great for us. The sacrifice being slain, its blood did expiate sin, an atonement was made, remission ensued upon it: Thus Christ dying on the cross, his blood was expiatory, our fault was compensated, Justice was satisfied, wrath was averted, and God appeased and reconciled towards us. In these things appears a fair analogy between those ancient sacrifices, and Christ the great Sacrifice.

with the Corn he was bruised, with the Wine and Oyl poured out, with the Lamb slain and roasted in the fire of Gods wrath, and with the Scape-goat driven into the wilderness of desertion, crying out, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? His sufferings were very many and great for us. The sacrifice being slain, its blood did expiate sin, an atonement was made, remission ensued upon it: Thus Christ dying on the cross, his blood was expiatory, our fault was compensated, Justice was satisfied, wrath was averted, and God appeased and reconciled towards us. In these things appears a fair analogy between those ancient sacrifices, and Christ the grea Sacrifice.

The other is this: There is that in Christ which infinitely transcends all the legal sacrifices. In the sacrifice there was only a brute in perfection, but in Christ there was an human nature in perfection; an human nature which had the Spirit above measure, and was as full of grace as the capacity of a creature could hold: there was in his humanity such a beauty and unmatchable perfection of grace, as far surpassed the united and accumulated excellencies of all the Angels in Heaven. The sacrifice stood and suffered in the room of offenders by constraint and compulsion, it was bound with cords to the horns of the Altar: but Christ stood and suffered in our room by choice and voluntary sponsion; his soul was not snatched away, but poured out; his life was not merely taken away, but laid down; he was under no constraint but that of his own compassion; he was tied with no cords but those of his own love. In the private sacrifice some particular sin was charged