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2.
Ephefaans,Clla
p:
r.
V
E
R.7,
is
underftood
by Chrift
his
blood. a. How
it
hath
fet
us
free
from bon-
dage.
By
his bloudy death
upon
the
croffe,
or
his
bloudy
and curfed
death, the Scripture maketh
us
redeemed
:
By his
death, Heb.g.
r2. and
by
yeelding himfelfe
to
be made
a
curie for us,
Ga1.3.
t
3.
the comman-
dement
given
to
Chrift,
being this, That
he
Jheuld
lay
dowse
his
life
for
our
redemption
;
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
to
anfwer our
finnes,
the
God- head
did but
fuftaine
him,
that
he fhould
not be (wallowed
up
of
it;
as
the
brafen
covering
of
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
of
darkeneffe was
then come, when
this his redemptory
fuffe-
ring
approached.
Chrift
our furety was
to
take upon
him our debt
of
death, both
cor-
porall and fpirituali,
fofarre
as
he
might, neither the union of
his
per
-
fon, nor
yet the
holineffe
of
his
nature any
whit
diminifhed:
The
Scrip-
ture
doth
mention
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, like
as
death bodily doth
thelife
of
the
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
in
us,
whole
foulesare
dead
in
finnes and trefpaffes.
Now
this death
is
it,by
meanes
whereof
Gods grace
doth
let
us
free,
and
that
in
moll Oft manner. Firft,
from
the guilt
of
finne,
in as
much
as it
doth
pacific and fatisfie juftice
her
difpleafure
again('
finne
:
This
obedience
of
that great
God,
our Saviour, being farre more
effeétuall
ro
pleafe and fatisfie,
then the
finne
of
the 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
infinite
for the
value
of
it
:
Hence
it
is
that God,
that
is
God,
as
now
in
his
revenging juf'ice
is
gone forth,
is
faid
to finell
a
favour
of
reft
in
the death
of
Chrifl,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
by
an
al-
fufficient
ranfome accepted
of
juftice.
Secondly;
Now
thisblood
or
death, doth
free
us
from the
Devil!
;
for
Satans
power
over
us
was
by
reafon
of
finne, and
the
punifhment
due
to
ir,
from the juftice
of
God,
co/.2.
By
his
croffe
he
triumphedover,
and
fpoiled
principalities,
¿c.
by
death he deftroyed him
-that
had the
power
of
executing
death.
Thirdly; this
death
loth
obtaine-the fpirit tobe givenus,which
Both
free
us
from the captivity
of
lulls,
&
finable us
to
finde
liberty
in
actions
of