The truly blessed man

2. I proceed now to give the ground or reasons of the Doctrine: and there are two assertions that will be serviceable for this purpose.

1. That the virtue of Christ's Sacrifice is sufficient for the forgiveness of all sins; and we may gather some intimation of what Gods purpose was, when we consider what provision he hath made. However, here is reason sufficient to evidence that all Sin may be pardoned when we are acquainted that there is enough in the remedy for it. Here observe three things.

1. That the vertue of Christ's Sacrifice is sufficient for the forgiveness of all sins; and we may gather some intimation of what Gods purpose was, when we consider what provision he hath made. However, here is reason sufficient to evidence that all Sin may be pardoned when we are acquainted that there is enough in the remedy for it. Here observe three things.

1. That there is no forgiveness without satisfaction made to the Justice of God; the Law stands out against every Sinner, and condemns him to die: and that Law was the Rule of Relative Justice between God and man, and cannot be baulked without violence offered to that Righteousness. It therefore is asserted, Heb. 9.22. Without blood there is no Remission, for, tho' God forgives the Sinner freely, in the application of it to the Subject, yet forgiveness must be first laid in for him, and that by a sufficient ⟨p. 35⟩price paid for him, or else there were no room for such an Application, as the case stands between God and man in the First Covenant; so that if there could have […] no satisfaction made, there could not have any forgiveness been conferred, but the Law must have unavoidably past into execution upon the guilty Creature.