It were no justice for God to require the payment of Christ; nay to receive the full satisfaction of Christ, and to require any thing of thee. This God did, He laid on him the iniquity of us all, Isa. 53. and this hath Christ done; he paid God till he said, he had enough; he was fully satisfied, fully contented: This is my well-beloved Son, 1in whom I am well pleased; in whom I am fully satisfied and appeased. So the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.1. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, &c. He was paying himself out of the blood, scourges, and sufferings of Christ; and in that Christ made a full payment. Hence Christ saith, Joh. 16.10. I send my Spirit, and he shall convince the world, as of sin, so of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye shall see me no more; that is, you shall see me no more in this kind; you shall never see me again as a sufferer, as a satisfier of Gods Justice for sin more; I have done this. Indeed we should have seen Christ again if he had not satisfied Justice; if but the guilt of one of those sins he bare had lien on him unsatisfied ⟨p. 14⟩for, it would have held him under chains of death, the power of the grave, for ever; he could never have risen, much less have ascended, and gone to the Father, if he had not answered Justice to the full. And therefore the Apostle makes a challenge, he sets the death of Christ against what ever Sin, Satan, Justice, or Law can say, Rom. 8.33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It is God that justifieth: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that dyed, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. He says not, Who shall accuse, but, who condemn? Indeed we may have accusers enough, Sin, Satan, Conscience, &c. but none can condemn: the issues of life and death are not in their hand. And as none of our sins shall condemn us, so none of our sins shall put us into a state of condemnation more; none of our sins shall ever put us under the curse, under wrath again. And that is the second.
It were no justice for God to require the payment of Christ; nay to receive the full satisfaction of Christ, and to require any thing of thee. This God did, He laid on him the iniquitie of us all, Isa. 53. and this hath Christ done; he paid God till he said, he had enough; he was fully satisfied, fully contented: This is my well-beloved Sonne, 1in whom I am well pleased; in whom I am fully satisfied and appeased. So the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.1. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himselfe, &c. He was paying himselfe out of the bloud, scourges, and sufferings of Christ; and in that Christ made a full payment. Hence Christ saith, Joh. 16.10. I send my Spirit, and he shall convince the world, as of sinne, so of righteousnesse, because I goe to the Father, and ye shall see me no more; that is, you shall see me no more in this kinde; you shall never see me againe as a sufferer, as a satisfier of Gods Iustice for sinne more; I have done this. Indeed we should have seen Christ againe if he had not satisfied Iustice; if but the guilt of one of those sinnes he bare had lien on him unsatisfied ⟨p. 14⟩for, it would have held him under chains of death, the power of the grave, for ever; he could never have risen, much lesse have ascended, and gone to the Father, if he had not answered Iustice to the full. And therefore the Apostle makes a challenge, he sets the death of Christ against what ever Sinne, Satan, Iustice, or Law can say, Rom. 8.33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect? It is God that iustifieth: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that dyed, yea rather that is risen againe, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. He saies not, Who shall accuse, but, who condemne? Indeed we may have accusers enough, Sin, Satan, Conscience, &c. but none can condemne: the issues of life and death are not in their hand. And as none of our sinnes shall condemne us, so none of our sinnes shall put us into a state of condemnation more; none of our sinnes shall ever put us under the curse, under wrath againe. And that is the second.
- 1Mat. 12.18. [Greek or Hebrew]. in quo complacui, in quo placatus sum. Lege Bez. in Matth. 3.17.Mat. 12.18. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. in quo complacui, in quo placatus sum. Lege Bez. in Matth. 3.17.
