too _ Satisfo"'1io~ ftJr Sin. - fign?d to be the facrifice for all his feed, which thelire o.frevenging wrath lhouJd burn up, tilf it fent forth a fweet-finelling favour, a favour of refi to' the incenfed jufiice of an o.tfeqded God. Secondry,Another grand point efl:ablHh.ed here, was, ' That the cm·fe transferred on him, fhould be infinite-: ' ly e:xecute· upon him, as the fecond Adam'our Repre· · fentative ; .whereby he fhould die really for· his· feed, to the full compenfation ofall the injuries done to the · honour of an infinite God, by all their Gns/ Vain is that curfe, which takes not e.tfe(t: but, as the curfe of the holy law was not caufelefs, · fo it ~ould not mif~ . of coming on, in its iJ:?.finite weight~ for the fatisfac– tion of ju.fl:ice. Now had it come fo on them, . they . would have been eternally fatisfying, but could never have ended· their fatisfaB:ion. But cqrn.ing on him, ' the church ofGod was purchafed by his own blood,~ · AB:s xx. 28. and the blood of Jefus Chr~fi his Soq cleanfeth us.fi·om all fin, I John i. 7· the infinite dig– nity <?f the perfon dying, making the execut~on of th~ , curfe on him unto death, to be in~nite in value, fully compenfating the infinite wrong, according to th~ ~!limate made ofit by law and jufiice. And here it was fettled and agreed, ' That the curfe .fhould be execute on the whole man ;' that being their. due: and therefore, that he lhould become poor, and 1zot have where 'to lay his head: that he iliould fuffe'r hunger, for want ofmeat; thirfi, for want ofdriBk ~ , that his name and reputation lhould be funk, loaded \Vith vile reproache~_ and flanders ; his , very friend~ going about to lay hands on him a·s a mad-man: ,that he fhou]d be accounted a worm, and no man; 'a re– proach of men, and defpifed of the people:' his ~hole lot in,the world, afRiB:ed, and perfecuted, and exceed– ing low: and·rhat in end, being fiript of his garments~ he lhould be hung up naked before the fun, between . two malefactors, as if the wor.fl: of the three. . 1 • 1Y1ore particularly, here ~twa-sfiipu1ate andagt:eed to~ : · 1. That ' .
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