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

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 ⟨p. 147⟩upon it; in the public one, the sins of the Jewish Nation were charged upon it: But upon Christ were laid the sins of a World, sins of vast distances, as far remote in place as the quarters of the earth, and in time, as the morning and evening of the world, met all together upon him. In the sacrifice there was a mere simple death, and the blood was but the blood of a brute: but Christs death was not a mere simple one, but a death with a sting and a curse in it; a death with as much wrath in it, as was due to the sin of a world; nor was his blood the blood of a brute, but the blood of a man, nay of God himself: and what manner of Sacrifice was this! how compensative for sin! how satisfactory to Justice! how aversive of wrath! how impetrative of all good! In every respect it was infinitely valuable and sufficient. The Sacrifice suo modo did expiate sin, it took away civil guilt, by freeing the offender from that temporal death which in the strict sanction of the Law was due to him. It took away ceremonial guilt, by freeing him from those legal impurities which excluded him from the public Worship; hence the Apostle saith, That the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, did sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, Heb. 9.13. Thus far went the sacrifice, but it could go no further:

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 meerly 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