A Body of Practical Divinity

2. Something expressed, viz. That the Spirit applies to us this Redemption purchased, By working Faith in us, &c.

2. Something expressed, viz. That the Spirit applys to us this Redemption purchased, By working Faith in us, &c.

1. The thing here implied, That Jesus Christ is the Glorious Purchaser of our Redemption: The Doctrine of Redemption by Jesus Christ is a glorious Doctrine; 'tis the Marrow and Quintessence of the Gospel. In this all a Christian's Comfort lies. Great was the Work of Creation, but greater the Work of Redemption: it cost more to redeem us than to make us; in the one there was but the speaking a Word, in the other shedding of Blood, Luke 1.51. The Creation was but the Work of God's Fingers, Psal. 8.3. Redemption the Work of his Arm: Heb. 9.12. Having obtained eternal redemption for us. Christ's purchasing Redemption for us, implies that our sins did Mortgage and Sell us: had there not been some kind of Mortgaging, there had been no need of Redemption: Redimere, q. rursus emere, Hierom. Now Christ when we were thus mortgaged and sold by Sin, did purchase our Redemption: Christ hath the best right to redeem us, for he is our Kinsman: the Hebrew word for Redeemer, Goel, signifies a Kinsman, one that is near in Blood: in the Old Law the nearest Kinsman was to redeem his Brother's Land, Ruth 4.4. Thus Christ being near a-kin to us, Flesh of our flesh, is the fittest to redeem us.

1. The thing here implyed, That Jesus Christ is the Glorious Purchaser of our Redemption: The Doctrine of Redemption by Jesus Christ is a glorious Doctrine; 'tis the Marrow and Quintessence of the Gospel. In this all a Christian's Comfort lies. Great was the Work of Creation, but greater the Work of Redemption: it cost more to redeem us than to make us; in the one there was but the speaking a Word, in the other shedding of Bloud,