90 2. Ephefaans,Cllap:r. V ER.7, is underftood by Chrift his blood. a. How it hath fet us freefrom bon- dage. By his bloudy deathupon the croffe, or his bloudy and curfed death, the Scripture makethus redeemed : By his death, Heb.g. r2. and byyeelding himfelfe tobe made a curie for us, Ga1.3. t 3. the comman- dement given to Chrift, being this, That heJheuld lay dowse his lifefor ourredemption ; For looke as a furety mutt pay in fuch death as the Law infliâeth on (inners, fuchdeath as is joynedwith the curie: As he was our furety, and undertooke toanfwer our finnes, the God- head did but fuftaine him, that he fhould not be (wallowed up of it; as the brafen coveringof the Altar, did make it fit to endure that materiali fire. 3.The aflault of thofeimpurefpirits for the hour or time; for all thofe powers ofdarkeneffe was then come, when this his redemptory fuffe- ring approached. Chrift our furety was to take uponhim our debt ofdeath, both cor- porall and fpirituali, fofarre ashe might, neither the union of hisper- fon, nor yet the holineffe of his nature anywhit diminifhed: The Scrip- ture dothmention his blood fo frequently, both becaufe this circum- fiance is molt fenfible, andwas the body in which all the typicalibloud offacrifices in the Law had his accomplifhment. And Ergo, as when we reade that Chrift was fiefh,we mutt not think as t. , that he tooke no foule; fo when we reade his blood flied, or bodily death, we muff not thinkethat he died not a fpirituall death in foule alto : The fathers, who denied that he dyed in foúle, deny it not abfolutely,but after a fort,vi. that he dyed not fuch a death in foule, as did deftroy the eflentiail life of it, likeas death bodily doth thelifeofthe body; nor yet any fuch death as did either feparate his foule from union with God, or did imploy any finfull corruption, as it did inus, whole foulesare dead in finnes and trefpaffes. Now this death is it,bymeanes whereof Gods grace doth let us free, and thatin moll Oft manner. Firft, from the guilt offinne, in as much as it doth pacific and fatisfie jufticeher difpleafure again(' finne : This obedience of that great God, our Saviour, being farre more effeétuall ro pleafe and fatisfie, then the finne ofthe whole world could be todill pleafe and provoke juftice againft us: For though it be finite in it felfe, yet in the perfon it becommeth infinitefor the valueof it : Hence it is that God, that is God, as now in his revenging juf'ice isgone forth, is faid to finell a favour ofreft in the deathofChrifl,and by Chrifls being put under the Law, or curfeofGods revenging juftice, made manifeft ih the Law,we are faid to be redeemed from the Law or curfe, as byan al-fufficient ranfome acceptedof juftice. Secondly; Now thisblood or death, doth freeus from the Devil! ; for Satans power overus was by reafonof finne, and the punifhment due to ir, from the juftice ofGod, co/.2. By his croffe he triumphedover, andfpoiledprincipalities, ¿c. by death he deftroyed him -that had the power of executingdeath. Thirdly; thisdeath loth obtaine-the fpirit tobe givenus,which Both freeus from the captivity oflulls, & finable us to finde liberty inactions of
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