Vera 32. the 8th Chapter to the R O MAN 5 2 2. Poftively 5 Brit delivered him up for to all. Mark, I. The perfòn who did it. 2. The aa, what he did; delivered. 3. The ¡i rfons for whom ; For uJ al; , I. The perfon who ; God feared rot his own Son, bra delivered him op for us all. This Word is ufed of Ceveral agents; judas delivered him, John 19. t t. He that delivered me unto thee , hath the greater fn ; Pilate delivered him to be crucified, Jahn 19. 16. the high Priefts delivered him to Pontius Pilate, Match. 27. 2. The people delivered him up to be fcourged, and crucified by the Gentiles, Matth. ac. 19. yea, Jean Chrift delivered up himfelf; Rom. 4. 25. Who was delivered for our offences. And here God delivered him up for sto all; one word is ufed,but the a't proceeded from Ceveral caufes ;'the people delivered him out of ignorance, and inconfiderate zeal ; Yudas out of covetoufnefs and treachery ; the high Prielts out of malice and envy ; Pilate out cf a faulty compliance with the humours of the people, and to preferve the reputation of his government; Chrilt out of obedience to God; God himfelf to Thew his infinite love to us: 'Tis for our comfort to obferve Gods all. in this tradition ; if it had been done without Gods knowledge and coulent, nothing had been done for our falvation ; God doth no- thing ráfhly, or unjuflly. Therefore fince Chrift was delivered by the determinate couníel of God, Ads 2. 23. the reafon mull be enquired into; 'c was out of hislove to recover a loft world, that he might make fuisfalion to provoked juftice for our wrongs and offences : fo that Chrift died, not by the meer wickednefs of man, but the righteous and wife ordination ofa gracious God; and fo'tis a great argument of Gods love, and a ground both of gratitude and confidence to us : We mull look to the fathers ahi, to whom we make our prayers, with whom we would fain be reconciled, whole judgment we fear, whofe favour we Peek after. Now he appointed his own Son to do the office ofa Mediator for us; the law which condemneth us, is the láw of God, the wrath and punifhment which we fear, is the wrath of God ; the prefence into which we come, is the pretence of God; and the fountain of all the blsffrngs we expel, i, the favour of God ; and God fpared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, to afìùre our comfort, peace, and hope; his hand is chief in it. a. The ac7, what he did: he delivered him up, not only to be made fiefh for us, r yobs 14. which was a (late of being at the greateft diltance from his nature, whowasa pure Spirit. But God who is a Spirit,was made llefh, that he might be nearer to us, and with- in the reach of our commerce; and took a mother upon earth, that we might have a fa- ther in Heaven; which maketh all the promifes of God more credible to us ; for the ex- altation of man, isa thing of more eafìe belief, than the abafement of the Son of God; i£he will affume (Seth, we may reafonably expeU to be apparelled and cloathed upon with his glory ; but an made fin for us, 2 Cor. s. z t. Sin is taken in Scripture tome- times for a facrifice far fin, or a fin- offering, by a metonymy of the adjuoU for the Cub - jelt, as presat/t o in Latin, is both a fin, and a facrifice for fin : fo the Prielts in the Pro- phets reproof are Paid to eat the fins of the people, Hofea 4. 8. that is, the facrifices, when they minded nothing but to glut themfelves with the fat of the offerings, part of which was the Prielts portion ; and lò Chrift was made fin for us, that is., an expiatory facrifice for our fin. So in the beginning of this chapter, Rom. 8. 3. God by fending his Son in the fimilirude of finful fiefh , hath by fin condemned fin in the fteJh; that is, by the fufferings of Chrifl, or his becoming a fin- offering, hath put an everlafling brand upon fin, to make it odious and hateful to the Saints. Once more: Made al./oft for us, Gal. 3. 13. to note the pain and finale of his death, and to thew that Chrilt was ap- pointed to bear that turf of the law, and punifhment which belongeth to us, which was fo grievous and terrible, as that his humane nature ítaggered, and recoiled a little, by a jufl abhorrence of the great evil which he was to undergo; and when he was under it, his foul was exceeding forrowful and heavy unto death; fo that it extorted from him tears, and ftrong cries; yet God (pared not his Son, but delivered him up to thefe penal and dreadful evils! God might be Paid not to fpare his Son, if he had only ufed him as an internuncius, and,meffënger 5 but when he tiled him as a Redeemer, as one that was to pay a ranfom for us, it may be much more laid fo. g. For NJ all: The Perlons for whom ; ¡sr the curled race of fallen Adam, who had no ftrength to do any thing for themfelves 5 who had colt away the mercies of our crea- tion, and were fenilefs of our mifery, and carelefs of our remedy, had abufed the good. mats
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