The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Obj. Then Christs very weeping, and praying, being the weeping and praying of God-Man, might have been a perfect satisfaction for our sins; for Christ was God-Man in all his holy actions in the state of humiliation, as in his being crucified, and in his suffering?

Ans. This doth not follow: Because the punishment of the breach of the Law, and not that only, but such a special punishment, by dying the first and second death, according to the threatening of the Law, Gen. 2.17. In the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die: was required in the Law, and except the threatening of the Law be fulfilled, the Law is not fulfilled: And Paul, Gal. 3.13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, cursed be every o•e that hangeth on a tree. Now Christs suffering the death of the cross the cursed death is that which makes him under the Law. ⟨p. 228⟩Ergo, ¹there is a Law-righteousness in suffering death. So Gal. 4.4. God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the Law. For what end? 5. To redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the Adoption of sons. How are we redeemed from under the Law? By blood, purchasing to us Justification. Rom. 3.24. Being justified freely by his Grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ, whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins past: And redemption from the curse of the Law, and remission is ever ascribed to the blood of Christ dying,