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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Resp. Surely not for any desert of his own, Dan. 9.26. The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself; it was for us, Isa. 53.6. Unus peccat alius plectitor; He suffered that he might satisfy God's Justice for us. We by our Sins had infinitely wronged God, and could we have shed Rivers of Tears, offered up Millions of Holocausts and Burnt-Offerings, we could never have pacified an angry Deity; therefore Christ must dye that God's Justice might be satisfied.
Resp. Surely not for any desert of his own, Dan. 9.26. The Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself; it was for us, Isa. 53.6. Unus peccat alius plectitor; He suffered that he might satisfie God's Justice for us. We by our Sins had infinitely wronged God, and could we have shed Rivers of Tears, offered up Millions of Holocausts and Burnt-Offerings, we could never have pacified an angry Deity; therefore Christ must dye that God's Justice might be satisfied.
It is hotly debated among Divines, Whether God could not have forgiven Sin freely without a Sacrifice? Not to dispute what God could have done, but when we consider God was resolved to have the Law satisfied, and to have Man in a way of Justice as well as Mercy; then, I say, it was necessary that Christ should lay down his Life as a Sacrifice:
1. To fulfil the Predictions of Scripture, Luke 24.46