Ver. 3: the 8th Chapter of the ROMAN S. 31 word Ç facrifices) in another fort of letter, as being fupplyed, fo Ifa. 53. l o. When he 'hall make his foul fin, that is, ( as we well render it ) an offering for firs, fo 2 Cot: 5.2 t. Chritl was made f{n for us 5 that is, a facrifice for fin; fo here by fn he condemned fin in the flefh 5 that is, byapropitiatoryfacrifee: All things that were in the fin- offering, agree to Chriffs Death; for inftance, Firft Sin was the meritorious caufe why the beafl was Hain : thebeafts obeyed the law of their creation, but man had finned againft Cod, Lev. 5. 6. He (hall bring his trefpafs offering unto the Lord, for his fin which he hath fin- ned, and the P.riefi(hall make atonement for him concerning his fin. Here was no other reafon the bean an innocent creaturefhould die 5 fo Chrift died for our offences, Rom. 4.25. Not his own, he had no fins of his own to expiate 5 therefore while theSacrifice was yet alive, the man was to lay his hand on the head of the Sacrifice, confefling his fins, Lev. 16. 21. and putting them on the Sacrifice. Secondly, the facrifices were fib. flituted into the place of the ofender, and the beaus died for him; fo did Chrift die, not only in bonum noflrum, for our good; but loco & vice omnium noflri, in our Itead and room, Ifa. 53. 4. furely he bath born our griefs, and carried our farrows 5 he was wounded for our tranfgref ion. Thirdly, The offirings offered to God in our head, were confumed and defiroyed. If things of life, killed or (lain 5 other things were either burnt, as frankin- cenfe, or felled and poured out, as wine. There was a deftruetion of the thing offered God for fin in mans Read; fo Chrift was to die, or to flied his blood to put away fin, bÿ the facrifice of himfelf, Heb. 9. 26. He appeared toput away fn by the facrif ee of him felf. All the Offerings typified Chrift, but more aridly the facrifices, which were of living beaufs, force whereof were killed, flayed, burnt, foie ied and fried on coals; come feetbed in poti,all which were fhadows of what Chritendured, who is the only true propitiatory facrifice, wherein provoked Juftice refis fatisfied. 4. The liar of the facrifices, all either refpelJ God, or fn, or the frnner. God was pacified or propitiated, the fin expiated, the (inner reconciled, that is to fay juftified, fan - Etified. t. God was pacified, propitiated or fatisfied, the law being obeyed which he had in- Rituted for the doing away of fin; not fatisfied or propitiated as to the eternal punifb- ment, by the mere facrifice; but fo far as to prevent many temporal Judgments, which otherwife would fall upon them, for the neglelì of Gods Ordinances; but the true pro- pitiation is Chrift, t John 2. 2. Who gave bimfel f to be a propitiation for our fins. Pro- pitiation implieth Gods being fatisfied, pacified, appealed to us, fo as to become merciful to us. Secondly, The fin for which the facrifice was offered, was purged, expiated, as to the legal guilt 5 there was po more fault to be charged on them as to the remedy which that Law prefcribed 5 but the true purgation of the confcience from dead works, belongeth only to the Son of God, Heb. 9. 14. Thirdly, The effiá on the (tuner himfelf, was, the fìnnercoming with his fin offering, according to Gods inRitution, was pardoned,or jufti- fied, fo far as to quit him from temporal punifhment, both before God and man. The Ma- giftrate could not cut him off, he having done what the law required for his fin or tref- pafs; nor would God, he having fubmitted'to his ordinance; yea, he was fanítified, fo far is to be capable of legal worfbip; Heb. 9. r 3. for if the blood of bulls and goats, and the aches of an heifer, fprinkling the unclean, fantäifieth to the purifying of the flefh, &c. but now as to Chrift,the (inner is juftified by the free and full remifon of all hisfins, Matth. 26. 28. For this is my blood of the new tenement which is (bed for many for the remifon offns, and fanllifsed with an internal and real holinefe, Heb. to. Io. We are fanûifred by the offering of lefus Chrifi, once for all ; perfeâly juflified, and perfe &ly fanílified. Heb. 1o. 14. By one offering he bath perfeíled for ever them that are fanüíified: That is, with a perfection oppofire to the legal inflitution, not wish a perfefíion oppofite to the heavenly elute, that cometh afterwards. The ordinances of the legal covenant did what belonged to them 5 but as to the removing of the internal guilt, and eternal punifh- ment,they were not perfect without looking to Chrifi. 3. I come to the end and benefit. When God lent his own Son, furely he defigned fome great thing thereby; what was his end and defign ? He condemned fn in thefiefs. Two things mud be explained, fire, what is meant by condemning of fin. Secondly, what is meant by thefe words (in the fleck. ) I. What is meant by condemning of fin. To cdndemn is to deftroy it, becaufe execu- tion ordinarily followeth the fentence. Therefore the fentence is put for the executi- on 5 andthe word condemn is ufed for weighty Reafons. The Golpel is fpeaking of fufli- fscatian,orour not being cendemned. Chrift condenthedthat which would have condem- ned,
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