Chap.3.Sect.3 LockinguntD1tfuJ. Book. IV.·Parc.3. 631 himfdfto the like punifhment that his redeeemed ones· fbould have undergone. The Sociniuns tell us that Chrifis fufferings- and delth were not fodatisfl8: ion to God,but in reference to us, that we might beleeve the truth of his do8:rine confirmed and fealed ( as they fay ) by his death , and that we might yeeld obed1erce to God according to the patterne that be hath let before u~,& that fo beleeving and obeying,we might obtaine remiffion offins and cter· nallife. . . But the Scripture goes higher; in that mutual compa8: and ·agreement betwixt 6od and Chrifr, we finde God the Father impofirlg, and Chrift fubmitting to this fatisfa8:ior. 1. The Father impofeth it by charging the fiones of his Ele8: upon Jelus . Chrift. The Lord h.11th laid on him the iniquity of u~ all; not the Ha.r J.6, finnes themfelves, not the evil in them , or fault of them, but the guilt and penalty belonging to them; this God laid upon his fonne, and charged it upon him; he charged it as a creditor ·chargeth the debt upon the furety, requiring fatisfaction. . 2. Chrifr undertook it, he was opprtfJed, and he wM affliEted, orvcr 1. as fome tranfiate, it wM exaEted, and he anfwerNi; ( i.) God the Father required fatisfaCl:ion for finne, and Jefus Chrifr,as our furety anfwered in our behalf; he bare the jimw of m.m;, he ve~.U· bare them as aPorter that bears the burthen' for another whtcn himfelf is not ab le to frand under; he 'bare them by undergoing the punifh;tJent which was due for them , he bare them as our Surety , fubmitting himfelf unto the penalty which We had deferved ; and by that means he made fatisfa8:ion to the jullice of God . Surely Chrifrs death was not only for confirmation of his dochine,but for fatisfaCl:ion to God. 4· There is in it not onel)i a true, but.a·copious, and full fatisfaCl:ion,Chrifrs death & blood is fuperabundant to our fins;jthe J'.Yuce ofourLordwM exceeding abundant, rTim.'r. I 4· ~-~!71M~v<t.Oii it was over-full, redundant, more than enough. Many an humble foule is apt enough to complaine, Oh if I had not been fo great a fl.;qner, if I had not committedfitch a~td fuch tr.!ln[greffiDns there miJ,ht have been hope; This is to undervalue C hrifts"redemption , this i~ to think theri! is more in ftnne to damne, th~n in Chrifis fufferings to fave; whereas all thy finnes to Chrift are but as a little --cloud ,co the glorious Sunne; yea,all the fi~s · of
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