2. Eye the Blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as it is satisfying blood: And this it is because it was such precious blood; it was most precious blood, therefore it was blood of value and merit: The Law of God was transgressed, the Covenant of Works by us was violated, the Justice of God was wronged, and the Sinner was indebted unto Justice, and did owe the suffering of the penalty due for the breach of the Law; which was all miseries in this life, death it self, and the torments of Hell for ever. But in the Sacrament, eye Christs Blood as the payment of our debt, as shed nostro bono, for our good; and nestro loc•, in our stead. Christ hath endured as much as our sins had deserved; whose sufferings were satisfactory, though they were not eternal, and therefore were not eternal, because they were satisfactory: Eternity of torment not being essential to the punishment due to sin, but accidental, upon supposition, that the sufferings of sinners cannot satisfy; if the damned could satisfy Gods Justice by lying in Hell ten thousand millions of years, at the expiration of those years they should come forth; but because they can never satisfy, therefore they must for ever suffer.
2. Eye the Blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as it is satisfying blood: And this it is because it was such precious blood; it was most precious blood, therefore it was blood of value and merit: The Law of God was transgressed, the Covenant of Works by us was violated, the Justice of God was wronged, and the Sinner was indebted unto Justice, and did owe the suffering of the penalty due for the breach of the Law; which was all miseries in this life, death it self, and the torments of Hell for ever. But in the Sacrament, eye Christs Blood as the payment of our debt, as shed nostro bono, for our good; and nestro loc•, in our stead. Christ hath endured as much as our sins had deserved; whose sufferings were satisfactory, though they were not eternal, and therefore were not eternal, because they were satisfactory: Eternity of torment not being essential to the punishment due to sin, but accidental, upon supposition, that the sufferings of sinners cannot satisfie; if the damned could satisfie Gods Justice by lying in Hell ten thousand millions of years, at the expiration of those years they should come forth; but because they can never satisfie, therefore they must for ever suffer.
