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

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 t• 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: Isai. 53.4. Surely he hath born ou• 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 take• •way the guilt not only of that but of our innumerable personal Transgressions▪ and this the Apostle minds, Rom 5.16. And not as it […] 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 op•n 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 sore• 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, Eccles. 12.14 and therefore Christ that he might procur a remission of all our sins bore a punishment proportionable to them all: he was punished for them all, Isai 53.5. He was wounded for our transgressions: what he redeemed us from that he endured himself, Gal. 3.13. only it must be remembered ⟨p. 56⟩