~ - ·. --"""---------------- 696 Book. IV ·Part-3- Leoklngu?tto 1efus. Chap.3.Setl,l Col.. t,t'l• thefe thingJ are written that ye might /;e/eeve, .tndth;~t beleeving, &c. 3. That it might clearly appeare, that he had fully fatisfied the juftice of God for fin ; So it was that God layd the forfei. ture of the bond on-ebrift ; he arrefted him, brought him to , the goale, ths&rave; and there he was till the debt was payd to the utm6fr f-arthing; and then that it might clearly appeare that the bond was cancelled, the prifoner difcharged, Gods juftice .fatisfied, he rofe againe from the dead. Some make a quefiion when this bond was cancelled, and they fay; as the debt was payd, fo the bond was cancelled ere he fiirred offthe crolTe, (only by the croffe, I fuppofe they mean the utmofi degreeofChrifts humiliation, vi~. his being held in captivity and bondage under d~ath) and fo the hand-writing ofthe lRw that wM againft us, was there delivered him, .-and there he blotted it out, cancelledit, took_ itouto{the way, nrqlingit tohucroj[e. Others think, that as to the full difcbarge of a debt, and freeing the debtor, two things are requifite; firft ,the payment of the debt; fecondly ,the tearing, or cancelling of the bond ; fo the payment was wrought by Chrifis death; and the cancelling of the bond, was at his refurrection; I ilia !I not difprove either of thefe, I am fure this is without all contraverfie; that Chrifi rofe, that it might . fully appeare that now the bond was cancelled, and Gods jufl:ice fatisfied. 4· That he might overcome and conquer lin, death, and devil; and hence the Apofile cryes viElory upon the occafion of Chrifis refurrection, 0 death where u thy fling? 0 grave where rs thy vifJ6ry? .oow was; the day that he broke the ,prifon, and carryed the keyes ofdeath and hell at his own girdle; now was the day that he fpoyled principalities, and powers, that he troad.on . ·the ferpents bead, and all-to-bruifcd it, that he came upon him, took from him his armour wherein he rmfl:ed, and divided his fpoyles; now was the day that the Jew loft his rage, and death his fling, and the grave his corruption, and hell his purchafe; now was the day of his victory over aH his enemies; now was the day that the)'ha;nix fprung up our of its own allies, that JonM came fafc out of thebelly of the whale, that the Tabernade of David that was fallen, was raif~d againe, that the 1\un of righteoufneffe covered with a cloud appeared, and {hone with grea_rer
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