6 5o Boolc. IV. Part.Jo L1oking unto j-efrM, Chap.3.Sett.; ---- Mmh.to.• s. RQm.p5. Job. I. 29 :.Cor.5.>l, Heb.9.16. ~ Joh.l·7· that he might redeem them that were under the law. Alas ! we were carnal, fold under fin, whereupon the law feized on us, lockt us up as it were in a dungeon, yea the fentence paffed, and we but waited for execution ; ·now to get us rid from this difmal damnable dl:ate, Chrifl: himfelfe is made under the law, that he might redeem us; redeem us? how? not by way of entreaty to fiep in and beg our pardon, that would not ferve the turne ~ fold we were, and bought we mufl: be; a price mufl: be layd down for us, it was a matter of redemption, but with what muft we be redeemed? furely with no eafle price; ah no, it cofl: him deare and vcrydeare, ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, · as fi!Vtr .rnd gold, but with the precious blood of (hrift: his precious blood was the price we fl:ood him in ; which he payd wh('n he Jllve hu life a ranfome for many 1 the cafe fl:ood thus betwixt Chrifl: and us in this poynt of redemption, we all like a crew or company ofmalefactors were ready to fuff.::r, and to be executed 1 now, what faid Chri!l to this? why, I will comeunder the law, faid Chrifl:, I will fuffer th.1t which they fl;ould fuffer, I will takf up6n me their execution, upon condition I r!M7 redeem them; now this he did at his death ; and this was the end why he dyed, that by his death we might be n~deemed from the flavery ofdeath and bdl. 2. Another defigne ofChrifts death was to free us from fin : not only would he remove the effetl:, but I1e would rake away the raufe alfo, whom God hMh Jet forth to be a propitiation - for the remiffion of(in.- Behold the Lambe if God which ta~erh awa)' the Jins of the. wprld.- He hath made him to be fin for m, who k,;tew m fin, that we might be made the righteoufmf!e of God in him.-- · Once h~tth he appeared to put away Jin by the facrifice ~f himfelfe.-eAndthe bloodofrefm Chrift huSon cle>~nfethm from all fin . This was the plot wh ich God by an antient defigne aymed at in the fuffering of JefNs Chrifl:; that he would take away fin: And rhus f;,~ith muft take it up, and look upon it. When Peter had fet forth t!1:: lninoufn~e of the Jewes fin in killing Chrifr, he tells them 3t lafl qftbat defigneofold, all this ·w.u denr,jttid /;e, by the determinlltr~'omtcef of(Jpd, His meaning was firll to humble them, and then to raife them up; q. d. it was not fo much they that wro;.;gbr his death, as tile decree of God, and the agreement ofGod and Chrift; there was an an- . · rient
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