s N A D E B T. Book IV. M E T A P H 0 R. D I S P A R I T Y. pel; this the Holy Gho{[ clearly informs us, Rom. iii. 31. Do we then make void the Law through Faith? God forbid: rea, we eftablifh the Law. Beza's Paraphrafe here is ver'f good : Chrifti Jatisfartio quid aliud quam Legis minas ojiendit minime irritas q[e, quam il!as lucre Chrijfum oportuerit? 0 Chrifti 'jujiitia, quid aliud eft quam Legis pr,eflatio? See allo Matt. v. I 7, 18. 'Think not, faith Chrift, that I am come to deftroy the Law, or the Prophets; I am not come to deftroy, but to fulfil: For verily I fay unto you, till Hea– ven and Earth pafs away, one jot, or one little Jhall in no wife pafs from the Law, till <Z!l be fulfilled. As all the Predictions of the Prophets were fulfil!ed by him, and in him; fo was the whole Law in his keeping the Precepts of it, and teaching others to do the like, and in his bearing the Penalty of it, and fulfilling the Types of it. The Golpd is fo far from repe<~ling the Penalty of the Law, that the very Gofpel itfelf is founded on Chrift's undertaking to bear the Penalty of it, Heb. ix. 15, I6. 'There cou!li have bem 110 'Teftament, but in and through the Death of the 'Teftator. There could have been no fuch Thing as a Golpel, or a Tender of glad Tidings and Mercy to us, but through Chrift's undertaking, as our Surety, to bear the Curfe of :he Law, Gal. iii. 13. And f<jl much for the Argument from the Truth of God's Threatening. The Sum of what we fay and believe about this great Truth, is this : i. That by the Sin of our fidt Parents, all Men are brought into a State of Sin, and Apoftacy from God, and of an Enmity to him, Gen. vi. 5· Pfal. li. 5· Rom. iii. 23. and viii. 7· Eph. iv. I8. Col. ii. 13. 2. That in this State all Men naturally continue, !inning againit God, nor of them– felves can do otherwile, Rom. iii. 1 o, 1 r, I 2. 3· That the J uftice and Holinefs of God, as he is the fupreme Governor and Judge of all the World, requires that Sin be punilhed, Exod. xxxiv. 7· 'jojh. xxiv. 19~ Pfal. v. 4, 5, 6, &c. 4· That God hath alfo engaged his Veracity and Faithfulnefs in the Sanction of the Law, not to leave Sin unpunifhed, Gen. ii. I7. Deut. xxvii. 26. Curfed be he that con– firmeth not all the Words of this La7p, to do them. In this State and Condition all Man– kind, had they been left without divine Help and Aid, mufl have perilhed for ever. 5· That God, out of his infinite Grace and Goodnefs, fent his Son, the Lord Jcfus Chrift, to deliver them. 6. That this Love was the fame in Father and Son: The Father could not be more gracious and kind than the Son, nor the Son in Bowels exceed the Father; but both alike loving, gracious, and compaffionare. 7· That the Way in general whereby the Son of God, being incarnate, was to fave loft Sinners, was, by a Subftitution of himftlf, according to the Decree and Appoint– ment of God, in the Sinner's room; according to 2 Cor. v. 2 r. He bath made Lim to be 1. Sin for us, who knew no Sin, that we might be made the Righteoufnefs of God in him. Compared with Gal. iii. 17. Rom. v. 7, 8. and viii. 3· 1Pet. ii. 24. and iii. 18. · 8. That Chrifr, in his faving Sinners, harh, ( 1.) Offered ~imfelf a Sacrifice to God, to make Atonement for Sins, Jfa. liii. IO. Eph. iii. 2. Heb. ii. '7· and ix. 11, I2, 13, 14· (2.) That he redeemed us, by paying a Price, a Ranfom for our Redemption, Mark x. 45· I Cor. vi. ~o. I 'Tim. ii. 6. I Pet. i. 18. (3.) That he bore our Sins, that is, the Punifhment due for them, Jfa.1iii. 5· 1 Pet. ii. 24. (4.) That he anc fwered the Law, and the Penalty thereof, Rom. viii. 3· Gal. iii. 13. and iv. 4, 5· (5.) That he died for Sin and Sinners, to expiate the one, and in the ftead of the other, Rom. iv. 25. and v. 10. (6.) And that God, upon Chri!\'s voluntary Sufception of his Office, as Mediator, and Condefcenfion to the Work, did fo lay our Sins, in and by the Sentence of the Law, upon him, that he made full SatisfaCtion for whatfoever legally could be charged upon them for whom he thus fuftered. (7.) And all this, that the J uftice of God being fatisfied, and the Law fulfilled, Mankind might be freed from the Wrath to come,- Rom. iii. 25. Ill. Among Men, that Debt that is paid, or full Compenfation made for it, either by the Debtor, or his Surety, cannot be faid to be forgiven. ' Ill. But that Remiflion of Sins is wholly through the free Love and Grace of God, is evident; yet not without Refpect had to the Atonement or Pro– pitiation, through Faith in Chrifl.'s Blood. For without foedding af Blood, there is no Rtmi.flion. We haveRedemption throug-h hisBlood, roen the RemijJion 2 . af
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