The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

1. It is represented as a price of redemption, Mat. 20.28. The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many, Rev. 5.9. thou wast slain, and hast Redeemed us to God by thy blood:

1. It is represented as a price of redemption, Mat. 20.28. The Son of man came to give his life a ransome for many, Rev. 5.9. thou wast slain, and hast Redeemed us to God by thy blood:

A Second consideration is of a sacrifice: the sins of the people were typically laid upon the sacrifice, and then it was slain; so Christ was sacrificed for us, Eph. 5 2. Christ hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God of a sweet smelling savour; 1 Cor. 5.7. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: the fruit of this is Reconciliation.

A third consideration of them, is, they are a punishment. Jesus Christ took upon the guilt of our sins; that is, our obligation to punishment, the demerit of sin, whereby the sinner deserves punishment, was not translated to him, as the merit of his righteousness is not translated to us, but the title to blessedness arising there from: so Christ took upon himself our obligation to punishment, and accordingly God inflicted the punishment of our sins upon him: Christ was legally guilty of our sin, and God punished him, 1 Pet 2.24 He bare our sins in his own body upon the tree: say. 53.4. Surely he hath born our griefs, and carried our sorrows: Rom 4.25. He was delivered for our offences? And here we may take notice of a great difference between the first and second Adam. The first Adam brought the guilt of one sin upon us, but Jesus Christ takes away the guilt not only of that but of our innumerable personal Transgressions: and this the Apostle minds, Rom 5.16. And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift, for the judgment was by one to condemnation: but the free gift is of many offences to justification: the first sin that Man is guilty of lays him open unto death: and his after sins do multiply his Obligations unto death, but do not expose him unto so many several deaths; yet they do expose him unto a sorer and greater degree of eternal death: where there are several sins meeting in the same person they are to be punished with an aggravated death: one death must be endured equivalent to so many several deaths: for every sin must be accounted for in the day of judgment,