'52 Chrifl the Ki;yman•redeemer. fhould give himfelfa ranfom for his poor kinfman~ and he agreed to it, for purchafing their liberty, 1 Tim, ii. 5, 6. The ranfom was great, foul , for foul, -body for . body; a perfon, ofinfinite dignity, for his poor kinf– man in bondage. But he confented, to take on him the form ofa fen.·ant, that they might be fet free; to have ears bored at the law's door·pofi, tpat they might be delivered out of their bondage. . 1 Lafl!y, He was to avenge the blood of his flain kinf– man on the !layer, Deut. xix. 12. ' The elders of the city fhall fend and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the (Goel) avenger. of· blood that he may die.' Our kinfman-redeemer faw all hi~ poor kin- · dred !lain men, and the devil "-'as the murderer, John viii. 44· ' he 'had minifired poifon to them' in the loins of their firfi parents, yea, he had fmitten them to death, kill'd them with an arrow fuot through the eye. But no avenger of their blood could be found, till th~ fe· cqnd Adam, as their· kinfman·redeemer, did, in the . fecond covenant, , undertake the avenging of it. ' . Mean while the murderer ' had the power of deat.h,' Heb. ii.• 14. And,' the fiing ofdeath is fin, and the firength of fin is the law,' I Cor. 'xv. s6. wherefore there was no difarming and defiroying of the murder•. er, without taking the fiing out of death which he had the power of. And that was not to be· ~one, but by fatisfying the law, whofe awful fanB:ion of death, , .ftrongly kept fafi the guilt of death on the finners. Thefe were the iron gates, to be broke through, · e.re the kinfman·redeemer, th~ avenger ofblood, could get . at the murderer. But the mighty Redeemer undertook by his own death and fufferings to fatisfy the Iaw; and by that rneans to remove the firengrh offin ; and by this meat'ls again, to take. away the fiing of death : and fo, by his own death to defiroy the :murderer, that had the power of death ; and ~his to avenge the blo~d of his flain ·kinfinen, upon him, Heb. ii. 14. So d1d Samfon, a ·type of our. Kinfman· redeemer, ~venge • \ 1 J(rael I I .•
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