in Contriving Man's Redemption. Ceren1onial. The direllive part of the Moral Law he ful.filled by. the lnnocency of his life;~ the PenaltJ he fatisfied as our Surety, being under an ,Obligation to fave us. Apd he ~p- ap. 13• pea red as a Sinner in his SubjeCl:ion to the Law of Mofis . . That Ha>Zd,writing was ~gamfl 1./V"'U 111 , Col. 2. 14. he therefore entdd into the Bond ~hat we had forfeiteq. In h_is C_~rcumcilion he figned it with thofe drops of Blood, wh1ch were an. earnef'r of h!S f11eddmg the reO: on the Crofs. For whofoever wa.t circJtntdfed, became a p~bt~r to tfJe. whol~ Law. A:nd we may obferve, "tis faid, That as Mofos lifted up the brazen Serpent, fa the Law, of whiCh. Mofos was a Type and Mihif'rer, lifted up the Mejfiah on the Crofs. . . , · : . 3· The Scriptnre is very clear and expref~ in fetting down the part th~t G0d had 10 the Sutferings of Chrif'r as fupreme Judge, the 1mpullive caufe that moved hun,, thm propor; tion tO thePunilbment of the Law, and the effeCt of them for our Deliverance. .. , He WM. delivered by the determinate com'.fil and fore-k..nowledge of God, .ACts 2. 2j. All the V')rious and ,,icious Actions of Men, were over-ruled by ~is Providence; the falfenefs. of J11dM, the Fearfulnefs of Pi/ate, and the Malice of the Jews were fubfervient to God's .Eternal Defign. And as he wills not tpe Death of a Sinn", much lefs of his Son, but for mofl: weighty Reafons: thefe are declared by the Prophet, flU we lif<!Sheep h~ve gone 4fray, _and ttJrned eVery one to /Ji.r own wayL· Our Erro~s were dtff~rem, but the tifue w~s ~he fa~e, that is, Eternal Death: And the Lord laid on him the lniqnitJ ofns aU, !fa. 53, 6.. that IS, the punHbment of our Iniquities. , His futferings had fuch a relpec.t to Sin, as included the imputation of it. 'Twas an ACt of Soveraignty in God to appoint Chrifl as Man to be our Surety, but an ACt of Juflite to infliCt the puni!hment, when Chrifl: had undertaken for us. Tis (aid, Hehathhorn our Grieft, 411dcarriedo1tr Sorrows. The Expreffions are comprehenfiveofall the Miferies ofhislife,efpecially his lafl Sutferings.The Hebrew words, NllJl and ';Jll, fignify fuch a takiqg away, asis by laying upon one who bears it from ~· Ahd thus it is interpreted by. St. P~ter, He hfmfelf bar~ onr Sins in his O'Q.?11 Body Ot! , ~~:~~~f f2· th:~~n~f~~f~~1bj~~~i~u~ili~~~vt~tio~Ji~r~~o~;:l~:~ ~~~\~~~~~n~~~~~ :i~:%:2:~ the fame purp,ofe, l}ot. 53 · 5· He was wounded for o11r TrtmfgrelfionJ., ,he wasbruifedforonr ()mu m h11.mr· {h~q~~~~~~f~~~;'~!u~~fn~j1~~ff~:t~~:i: Ore:j:~;~~ :si~~~{~'t;sth~ A;~:~~~1~n ~t;~~ !~~~~~:;~: words with the foriner. The Jews tho11ght him Jlr~ck..en, [111itten of God, and affliil.ed; that is, juflly puni!h'd for Blafphemy, and ufurping Divine Honour. In oppofirion to this Co~ceit, 't~s adde~, But he was wmmded for 011r Tranfgreffion-s. This the Apoll:Je ex· prefly. telleth us, when he declares that Chrifl died for our Sins. . on T:~s~:~~ ~/:rc~:~~~~ef~l~§~u~~~:i"i:fJ;i~~ ~~~~~h}u'l\[~;~ 0~~:~:· b!h ~~~; ~e~~~~ the Second, was the Sei)ten~e of the Law. Now the futferings of Chrift were anfwerable to this Punilbment. The Deathwhich the Law threatned for fin, was to be accompani, ed with Di!honour and Pain. And he futfered the Death of the Crofs, in which the equal Extremities of Ignoininy and Torment were join'd. A fpecial Curfe was annex·d to it, not only in refpeet of the Judgt;nent of Men, before whom a Crucified Perfon was made a SpeCtacle of publick Vengeance.for his Crimes, .but in refpeet of God's Declaration con· cerning it. The Jews were COqlffial!-4ed1 that none foqu/d lung on a Tree longer tha.11 the Evening, (Deut. 21. 03.) lefl the Holy Land lbould be.profaned by that, which was ad exprefs Mark of God's Curfe. Now the legal Curf~ was ~ Typical fignification of the Real, that lbould be fuffered by our Redeemer; Befides, hi~ Death was attended with exquifite pains: He fuffer•d variety of Torments, by the Scourges, the Thorns, the Nails that pier(d his Hands and Feet, the leaf'r vital, but mort fenfible parts. He refufed the Wine mix"d with Myrrh, that was given to f'rupify the Senfes: For the defign of his Paffion requir"d, that he lbould have the quickefl: fenfe of his Sutferings, which were the Punilbment of Sin. And his inward Sorrows were equivalent to the pains of Jofs and fenfe that are due to Sinnet'. Tis true, there are Circumfl:ances in the fufferings of_rhe Damn"d, as lllafphemy, Rage, impotent liercenefs of Mind, which are not appumted by ~he Law, but are ac~idental, arilin~ from the perverfenefs of their Spirits: For the pumlbmem of the Law IS a Phyfical Ev1l, but thefe are Moral : And that Punilbmem is infliCted by t~e Judge, but thefeare only from, the guilty Sutfere": Now tothefe he was not puffibly hable. Befides, the Death that the Sinner ought to futfer is Eternal, atte?ded with defpair, and the intolerable ang~ilb of Confcience. Now our Redeemer havm~ no real Gml.t, ·Was not liable to the Worm of Confcience, and his temporary St1ffenngs were eqmvalent to the Eternal, upon the account o f his Divrne P~rfon, fo that he was not capable of Defpair. But he endur'd the unknown terrors of the le.cond,Death, fo far as was confiflent with the PerfeCl:ion of his Nature. The anguilb of hiS Soul was not meerly from fympathy with his Body, but immediately from Divine DifA a 2 pleafure.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=