264 Of COMMUNION 'with bear them all, as the fcape goat in the wildernefs, not fparing bina but giving him up to dentin for us all. So exalting his juflice and indignation againft fin, in a way of freeing us from the condemnation of it, Rom. iii. 25. viii. 33, 34. In hint bath he made his truth glorious, and his faithfulnefs in the exalt accompliflunent of all his abfolute threatnings and promifes; that fountain-threat and commination, whence all others flow, Gen. Si. 17. In the day thou éaCf1 thereof thou limit dye the death, feconded with a curfe; Deut. xxvii. 26. Curfed in every one that continueth not, &c. is in him accomplilhed, fulfilled, and the truth of God in theta laid in a way to our good. He by the grace of God rafted death for us., Heb. ii. g. and fo delivered us' who were fubje& to death, v. xiv. and he bath fulfilled the curfe, by being made a curfe for us, Gal. iii. 13. So that in his very threatnings, his truth is made glorious, in a way to our good. And for his promifes ; They are all yea, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by us, grace, how eminently are they made glorious in Chrift, and advanced for our good? God hails fet him to declare his righteoufnefs for the forgivenefs of fin, he path made way in him for ever to exalt the glory of pardoning mercy towards finners. To manifeft this, is the great deign of the gofpel, as Paul admirably fets it out, Eph. i. q, 6, 7, S. There muit our fouls come to an acquaintance with them, or for ever live in darknef . Now this is a faving knowledge and full of confolation; when we can fee all the properties of God made glorious and exalted in a way of doing us good. And this wifdotn is hid only in Jefus Clarift, hence when he defined his father to glorifie his naine, oh. xü. 24. to make in him his name, that is, his nature, his properties, his will, all glorious in that work of redemption he had in hand; he was infiantly anfwered from heaven, I have both glorified it, and will glo- fie it again. He will give it its utmoft glory in him. (2.) That God will yet exercife and lay out thofe properties of his to the utmoft in our behalf. Though he hath made them all glo- rious in a way that may tend to our good, yet it dotli not abfo- lutely follow that he will ufe therm for our good, for do we not fee innumerable perlons perishing everlastingly, norwithftandiog the mani- fellation of himfelf which God bath made in Chrifl. Wherefore fur- ther, God bath committed all his properties into the hand of Chtift, if I may fo fay, to be managed in our behalf, and for our good. He is the power of, God, astil the wifdom of God, he is the Lord our rich- teoufnefs, and is made unto ms of God, wifdom and righteoufnefs, fase- tification and redemption (a). Clankhaving glorified his father in all his attributes, he hath now the exercife of them committed to him, that he might be the captain of falvation to them that do believe. So that if in the righteoufnefs, the goodnefs, the love, the mercy, the all- fufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jefus is fully interefted with the difpenfing of it in our be- half. Hence God is faid to be in him reconciling the world unto Him- felf; a Coy. v. 18. Whatever is in him he layeth it out for the re- . conciliation of the world, in and by the Lord Chrift. And lae be- comes the Lord our righteoufnefs, Ifa. xlv. 24, 25. and this is the fe- cond thing required. (n) i Coe: i. 20, 30, Jerem. xxìü,ó. leak
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