.• 98 . SafisfacUon for Si'n. ·- lies apd rbts in the grave. It is evident, in this ea~· that the death they died is the fame death, anfwerin~ the very fame efl:imate which the law made of the crime; and that therefore the death of the former ,C·nisfies the law, as well as the deat~ of the latter, fo that it cantlot reach his life again for that crime : how– beit, it is no lefs evident) that there is a huge differ– ence, between ~he death of the one and of the other, in accidentals, particularly, in fhe duration or con,ti– nuance of it. Wherefore, we conclude, that as Chrifl:. gave the fame aCtive obedience to the law, · which we fhould have given in virtue of the pena1ty1ofthat bro– ken covenant: forafmuch as, whatever difference tht~re was in accidentals, the eifentials were the farne ; it being laid on him, in the new covenatn, to fuffe~ death for us;equallingJhe infinite offence arifing from our fins:, being fully proportionate to the efiimate, the law and jufiice of God had made of our crime. And thus, according to what is faid, two grand points ·were efiabli.fhed in t~e conqitionary part of the covenant. Firfl, ' That the curfe of the law, due to us fo~ our fin, ihould be' transferred on him · as the· fecon& .;Jdam our Reprefentative; whereby he fhould infiartt• ly be a man dead in law for his feed.' Either he or · they behaved to bear the curfe: for it is written, ' Curfed is ever one that continueth not in all things written in the law.' · Since God had annexed the threatning of death, to his firfi €0Venant, faying, ' In the day thou eatefi thereof thou .£halt furely die ;' the ·· truth of G.od fecured, the curfe its taking p~ac~, ·as foon as fin Jhould e'nter. .Now they were not able to . bear -it, without being ruined tl~ereby. But, that it might be born~ and they withal faved, it was pro· "·ided that he .£hould be laid under it, in their room an'd fiead; that, as he was made fin for them, fo he :fhould alfo, in confequence thereof, be made a cu'r{e for them, GaL iii. 13· ' The
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