440 Comfortable PrefirmatiaesagaMfl delperation. which hee fully difcharged in as exaé amannerand tneatiire as the iufliceofGod required : for whereas wee are bound toperforme perfea obedience to the law, hee .performed it for vs ; where as wee for our difobediencewere fubie61 to the fentence of condemnation, the curie of the law, and death ofbody and foule ; hee was condemned for vs and bore the curie ofthe law, and died in our flead- an nominious deatb,whereas wee deferued the anger ofGod,i and to bee kept prifoners in thegraue vnder the dominion ofdeath,he endured his fathers wrathfull difpleafure, and himfelfewas fora time held captiue ofdeath in thegraue, that fohe might reconcile vs to his father, and fet vs at Lertie. In awordywhatfoeuer we owed Chrill difcharged, whatfoeuer wee deferued hee fuffered; ifnot in the felfe fame punifhments, (for hee could not fuffer the eternalr torments of hell) yet in proportion, the dignitieofhisper-. fön giuing value vnto his temporarie' punifhments, and- making them of more value and worth, then if all thé world fhouldhaue fufferedthe eternal] torments offiell. Se- ing therefore our Sallow Chrift hath fullie difcharged our debt, and made full fatisfa6tion tohis fathers iuflice, God cannot in equitie exaá of vs a -fecond paiment, no niore then the creditors may iufflie require thar his debt fhould twicepaid,onte ofthe fuertie,andagaineoftheprincipal. r I Neither now hath Gods iuflice anything to flew againft vs, for the law which was the handwriting of ordinances which madeagainfivs, and as it were a bond, whereby we wereobliged and bound to God the father -either toper forme obédience, or tovndergoe the penalties euen euer- fallingdeath andcondemnation, is now cancelled,taken a- way ; andfallened to thecroFof Chrift, as the Apoffle affir- meth, CoI.2.4.-. So that now the Lordcannot in his iuftice put vs in fuite,nor recoueranybebt ofvs, feeing our Sauiour Chrift, our good and all fuffieient furetie hath vndertaken thematter in our behalft difcharged our debt to the vtmoft farthing, cancelled thehandwriting or bond, in which we were obliged', and by thelaw acquitted vs of all paimentes, which_Gods iufticebyyertueofthe law might require ofvs: and
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