A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

4. The Lord Jesus Christ having gone through this work as a Surety, and full accomplished it it was now in justice looked upon as their work for whom, he did it in Suretyship. The act ve• and passive obedience of Christ must of necessity be accounted theirs, and they must have a real title to it for whom it was done by him, and in whose name it was accepted of by the Father; I say the active as well as the passive obedience; for though it was due from him as a man, and as under the Law, yet the Son of God was neither man, nor under the Law for himself but for his people. Christ therefore, taking upon him the person of his Elect, to answer and satisfy for them, and God receiving him in this quality, having before deputed him to it, it was as much in ⟨p. 63⟩the exact rigour of God's Justice, as if they themselves had done and suffered in their own persons.

4. The Lord Jesus Christ having gone through this work as a Surety, and full accomplished it it was now in justice looked upon as their work for whom, he did it in Suretyship. The act ve• and passive obedience of Christ must of necessity be accounted theirs, and they must have a real title to it for whom it was done by him, and in whose name it was accepted of by the Father; I say the active as well as the passive obedience; for though it was due from him as a man, and as under the Law, yet the Son of God was neither man, nor under the Law for himself but for his people. Christ therefore, taking upon him the person of his Elect, to answer and satisfie for them, and God receiving him in this quality, having before deputed him to it, it was as much in ⟨p. 63⟩the exact rigor of God's Justice, as if they themselves had done and suffered in their own persons.

5. Hence, the Lord Jesus, when he had gone through with, and finished the work of Redemption, received a full acquittance in the name of Gods Elect. That the Son of God, after he had done and suffered, was actually acquitted is evident, for otherwise he had never so risen from the dead in such a glorious manner as is recorded of him. Justice, which had him its Prisoner, under the bonds of Suretyship, would never have knocked off his Bonds, and set him at liberty on any other account, but because it had received satisfaction from him: and what satisfaction could that be, but the complete answering of the obligation wherein he stood bound: he had made no personal forfeiture of himself by any Transgression; for he did no sin, neither was there any guile found in him: it was therefore satisfaction for us, according to all that which was required of us: so that his acquittance was in the respect that he stood Surety, and on that score it was our acquittance, we were discharged in it, and thus much is intended in that,