Love's pedigree. Or A discourse showing the grace of love in a believer to…Love's pedigree. Or A discourse shewing the grace of love in a believer to…

2. This love provided Christ to purchase Salvation for us. Such was our unhappy condition by the Fall, that there could be no salvation for us, but by a satisfaction made to offended Justice, which Attribute must not in the least veil its glory in this affair, or so much as stoop to mercy in it. If God will save us, he must provide a Jesus for us, one that can save us from our sins. The Law must have a reparation made for the violation of it; our contracted Guilt must be expiated; we cannot do this for our selves, thousands of rams, and ten thousand rivers of oil will not do it; there must a Surety interpose to undertake this, none could do it but the Son of God, he must be made Sin and a Curse for us, he must have all our Iniquities laid upon him, and by his stripes we must be healed: the case was reduced to this exigence, either God must destroy us everlastingly for our sins, or do the execution upon his own Son in our stead; nothing else would have done: Certainly then here was love unparalleled: Christ himself expresseth it as that which exceeds all comparison, Joh. 3.16. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son▪ And the Apostle thought it to be an argument which could not be over strained, in the exercise of our faith for the obtaining of all the good that is laid up in the promise, Rom 8. ⟨p. 21⟩32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? and the consideration of it will be further amplified, by observing that this was done for us before we had any love for him: not only was it agreed upon in the eternal compact, that Christ should in fullness of time come, and work out salvation for us, but the thing it self was accomplished on our account during our being his enemies, Rom. 5.8, 10. God commends his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. When we were enemies we were reconciled to God, by the death of his Son.

2. This love provided Christ to purchase Salvation for us. Such was our unhappy condition by the Fall, that there could be no salvation for us, but by a satisfaction made to offended Justice, which Attribute must not in the least vail its glory in this affair, or so much as stoop to mercy in it. If God will save us, he must provide a Jesus for us, one that can save us from our sins. The Law must have a reparation made for the violation of it; our contracted Guilt must be expiated; we cannot do this for our selves, thousands of rams, and ten thousand rivers of oyl will not do it; there must a Surety interpose to undertake this, none could do it but the Son of God, he must be made Sin and a Curse for us, he must have all our Iniquities laid upon him, and by his stripes we must be healed: the case was reduced to this exigence, either God must destroy us everlastingly for our sins, or do the execution upon his own Son in our stead; nothing else would have done: Certainly then here was love unparallel'd: Christ himself expresseth it as that which exceeds all comparison,