3e6 The DoElrine of Jz,jfcatïon. caufe of our juftification, viz. redemption and propi- tiation through the blood of Chrift which is the righteoufnefs of God treafured up in him. By redemption is meant, properly fueh a deliver- ance as is by paying a price ; and fo the words re- deem and redemption are frequently ufed, Exod. xiii. 13. Numb iii, 48, 49, 5'. Lev. xxv. 24, 5 i, 52. Jer. xxxii. 7, 8. Neh. v. 8. From this proper figni- fication, it is borrowed, to fignify a diliverance with- out price, Luke xxi. 23. Eph. i. 4. and iv. 30. or rather by a metonymy of the caufe, put for the high- eft of ee , the ftate of glory: fo that the ftate of glory is called redemption, as being the completing and crowning effect of Chrift's redemption ; therefore it is caFed the purchafed pofeflion. By a propitiation is meant, that which appeafeth the wrath of God for fin, and wins his favour. And this propitiationof Chrift is two ways typified: firft, In the propitiatory facrifices, whofe blood was thed. And, 2dly, By th mercy-feat; which was called the propitiation, becaufe it covered the ark, wherein was the law ; and the blood of the facrifices for atone- rnektwas fprinkledbythe High Prieft before it. And this mercy-feat was a fign of God's favourablenefs to a finful people, in refiding among them, and was called (ilafèrion) Heb. ix. gr. Now, this doarine appears confirmed for thefe Keafons. 1. Becaufe Chrift, by thewill of God, gave himfelf a ranfomforusto redeemus from fin and punifhment, wrath and curfe : Tit. ii. 14. " He gave himfelf for us, to redeem us from all iniquity," he gave him felf to death for us ; was delivered for our offences; 'his death was the price of our redemption, that we might be juftified in God's fight. God gave him up to death, he fpared him not, that we might be made righteoufnefs, t Cor. í. 30. and Matth. xx. 28. " he r' gave his own life a ranforn for many ; and fo, A +" l im ii. 6. he bought us with this price, z Cor
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