AR T·' I C L E IIJ. Satisfattion for sin ~ T"' . HE formH two were in the ~onditidn of Adanis covenant; but this was not in it ; for while there was no fin; there was . l"l:o place for fatL;fi1ft:idli. for fin. ·But the new covenant .. behoved to be fettled on the . tonclition of a fatisfacHon for fin ; beeaufe the broken ' law or covenant of works, infified for it as a condi... tion .oflife to finldets, in vittue.of its peri~~ty b'y them. incurred . · :Howbeit, it was quire beyond 'their power, to anfwer this demand of the law. If. then the Medi..; ator will have a feed brought fi·om the fiate of death, ,into a fl:ate of life _arid falvation, he muft buy thent from the himd of jufiice, telling down the price for every foul of them, 1 Cor. vi. 20 ; Accordingly, all the £ins df every one of them froni the firfi fin they thould be conceived and bbrn in;' to 'the lafi fin they fhould expire with, being forefeen of God from eter– nity, were fummed up as fo many breaches of the law or covenant of works; and it was made another con.; ditionary article of the covenant, ' That Chriil:, as a. publick Perfon, lhould fatisfy fully and tdmpleatly ' for them all. Ifa. liii. 6. ' The Lord h~lth laid on him 'the iniquities of us all;' compared with Lev. xvi. 2I.; ' All the iniquities of the children of Ifrael, and all their t.ranfgteffions in all their. fins.' I Now in this arti<;:le there were I three things efta.; . . blifhed. · . . '. Firjl, ' That Chrifi, as a publick Perfo'n fuould fa.;: ' tisfy for .them by fuffering.' Luke xxiv; 26. 'Otfght ' not Chrifi to have fuffered ?, Sin'ners were tia.ble to . fuffer for the fatisfaB:ion· of ja!Hce: and n·othing but fuffering could be accepted as a tompenfation of the injury done by fin, to the honour of God, i'n the vio.. l.ating of his holy law. Th'oufands of !'am's, and ten · G · 1 ' thou- . I
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