630 Book IV. Pa~t.3. Lobking UNto :Jefus. Chap.J.Sed.3 Heb, 9.2.8.~ l ~e:,Iol8, li'.p~.67 . Tir.t.r4I Cor,((2.o, Re~· 59· · · M 't-1o.18, 1 Tic.16. was God as wellas man, fl~d wi~h hu own b!pod purchafed the Chr.rch; now furely every thmg,,, of God, is moft defirable. · - · 2. There is in it a worth , or price; -Chrift confidered under the notion of~ facrifice is of infinite worth; now thu[ttcrifice (faith the Apoille) he,jferedup, Heb.9.28. He offered up,not in heaven, as the Socinians would have il', in prefenting himfclf beforeGod his Fa~her, ~ut upon earth, vi:;,. in his pafiion upon the Crolfe. No wealth tn heaven or earth befides this could .redeeme one foul; and therefore the Apofile fets this againfi, all corruptible things, ~J flver andgo]tf, the ,things fo much fet by amongft the men urthts world ; Ye r11ere not redeemed with cor- . ruptible things, 111 ft.Lver and gold, -but with the precious blood of Chrifl, as ~fa Lamb w.itbo11t blemifo, nnd withou~ . [pot. h . . , . d [: , . ~ .a.. • • . 3. T ere ts m tt a ment an attsla,~..-uon ; toe Scrtpture mdeed d_oth not expreffely ufe tbefe words, but it hath the fenfe and meaning ofthe(II; As in that tex_t, He hath made usaccrpted in the beloved; to whom we have redemption through hu blood. I know there is a different notion in thefe words; for merit doth properly refped the good that is to be procured, but fa:- tisfaction the evil that is repelled ; but in Chrill: we ftand not on thefe difrinctions, becaufein his merit was fatisfaction, and in his fatisfaction was merit. A great controverfie is of late rifen up, whether Chrifts d~llth be afatisfafliqn to di'l!ine juftice? But the very wot:ds redeeming 11,nd buying , do plainly dc~onfirate, that ·a fatisfaction was given to God by the d~ath ofJefus; He gave himfelf for _m th_at he might reJeeme m, yeare bo11ght with . a price ; and what pnce was that ? wl:Jy hts own blood. Thou wl1jf Jlaine ,and bfljl redeemed UJ to God b; ~hy blood; (i.) by thy death and paffion• •This was ,the 'Au''l'fov, that ranfome which Chril\ gave for his Eletl:; .the fonne efman came to give hu life a ranfomr for many. or as the Apoftle, h~ gave himfelf a ran[ome for all, the word is here '7vni\u7rov: which figoifies an adequate price,or a cou-nterpricxl as when one doth,or undergoeth fon,ething in the r.oQme of another; as when one yeelds himfelfa captive for the redeeming of anotherot:•: of captivity, or gives up his own life: for the faving of another mans life; fo Chri'tl: gave himfelf c~vri'At~zyor, a ranfome,or counterprice, ~ubmitting ~ hl~
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