Fair dealing between debtor and creditor. A very brief essay upon the caution to…

But, Oh! What an astonishing thing has been done for us on this tremendous Occasion! The Eternal ⟨p. 30⟩Son of God has assumed our Nature; and therein He has become our Surety. On a Compact with His Glorious Father agreeing unto it, He has taken our Debt upon Him. He said, Lo, I come to answer the Debt. He has done so, in the Expiatory Sufferings, wherein He became Obedient unto Death, even unto the Death of the Cross: And He received an Acquittance, as having done it, at His Resurrection from the Dead. Oh! wonderful! Oh! wonderful! Our Saviour now invites us, to come, & plead the Payment which He has made, that we may be Released from our Debt, and lay hold on Eternal Life. Oh! Let us now with a lively Faith, make that Prayer to our Saviour, Psal CXIX. 122. Be Surety for thy Servant for Good. Plead it with the Glorious GOD, Lord, my Saviour has answered the Demands of thy Law in my Room. Oh! Bring my Soul out of Prison, that I may praise thy Name, & Oh! deal bountifully with me.

But, Oh! What an astonishing thing has been done for us on this tremendous Occasion! The Eternal ⟨p. 30⟩Son of God has assumed our Nature; and therein He has become our Surety. On a Compact with His Glorious Father agreeing unto it, He has taken our Debt upon Him. He said, Lo, I come to answer the Debt. He has done so, in the Expiatory Sufferings, wherein He became Obedient unto Death, even unto the Death of the Cross: And He received an Acquittance, as having done it, at His Rosurrection from the Dead. Oh! wonderful! Oh! wonderful! Our Saviour now invites us, to come, & plead the Payment which He has made, that we may be Released from our Debt, and lay hold on Enternal Life. Oh! Let us now with a lively Faith, make that Prayer to our Saviour, Psal CXIX. 122. Be Surety for thy Servant for Good. Plead it with the Glorious GOD, Lord, my Saviour has answered the Demands of thy Law in my Room. Oh! Bring my Soul out of Prison, that I may praise thy Name, & Oh! deal bountifully with me.

But then, what a Debt of Love to Him, who has thus paid our Debt, shall we have lying for ever upon us! We must own that Debt for ever, and the Love of our Saviour, in thus Ransoming our Souls, it must Constrain us to love Him, & prize Him, & seek Him, & serve Him, and be swallowed up in all possible Endeavours to Glorify Him. O ye Ransomed of the Lord; what will you do now for Him, who has discharged a Debt for you; wherein if He had not appeared for you, you must have been cast into an horrible, and an infernal Prison, from whence you could not have come out until you had Paid the uttermost Farthing: — But that,— What Ages must it have called for? — What will you do, but most heartily declare unto him; Truly, O Lord, I am thy Servant, I am thy Servant, since thou hast loosed my Ponds; Oh! may I be entirely Thine forever more!