each PERSON diftinfÌly. 267 out in the crofs of Chrift. r.) The defect of it. 2.) Man's impoten- cy by reafon of it. 3.) The death of it. 4.) A new end put to it. 1.) The defert of fin cloth clearly thine in the crofs of Chriff, un- on a twofold account. (t. Of the perfon fuffering for it. (2. Of the penalty he underwent.' (i. Of theperfon fuffering for it, this the fcripture oftentimes very em- phatically fets forth, and lays great weight upon, Joh. iii. 16. God fó loved the world, as that he fent hic only begotten fon. It was his only fon that God fent into the world to fuffer for fin, Reni. viii. 32. H fpared not his only fon, but gave bim up to death for ús all. To fee a flava beaten and correfted, argues a fault committed, but yet perhaps the de- merit of it was not very great. The correftionof a fon argues a great pro- vocation; that of an only fon, the greater! imaginable, Never was fin feen to be more abominably finful and full of provocation, than when the burthen of it was upon the fhoulders of the fon of God. God having made his fon, the fon of his love, his only begotten, full of grace and truth, fin for us, (a) to manifeft his indignation againft it, and how utter ly impoffible it is, that he should let the leafs fin go unpunifhed, he lays hand on him, and fpares him not. If (b) fin be imputed to the dear fon of his bawl, as upon his own voluntary affumptionof it, it was (for lie faid to his father, Lo I come to do thy will, and all our iniquities did meet on him,) he will not fpare him any thing of the due defert of it; is it not moll clear from hence, even from the blood of the crofs of Chrift, that fuch is the demerit of fin, that it is altogether impofhble that God should pafs by any; the leafs, unpunifhed; if he would have done it for any, he would have done it in reference to lais only fon; but lie.fpared him not. Moreover! God is not at all delighted with, nor deGmus of the blood, the tears, the cries, the unexpreffible torments and fufferings of the fon of his love. For he delights not in the anguifh of any (He cloth not (e) af- AiS willingly, nor grieve the children of nren) much lefs the fon of his ho- fom; only he required that his law be fulfilled, his juftice fatisfied, his wrath atton'd for fin, and nothing lefs than all this, would bring it about. If the debt of fin might have been compounded for, at a cheaper rate, it had never been held up at the price of the blood of Chrift. Hera then, foul, take a view of the defert of fin ; behold it far more evident, than in all the threatnings and curfes of the law. I thought indeed, mayeft thou fay from thence, that fin, being found on fuels a poor worm as I am, was worthy of death, but that it fhould have this effeft, if charged on the fon of God, that I never once imagined. (a. Confider alfo further, what he fuffered. For tho' he was fo excel- lent an one, yet perhaps it was but a light atRiftion, and trial that he un- derwent, efpecially confidering the ftrengdi he had to hear it. Why what ever it were, it made this (d) fellow of the Lord of bolls, this (e) lion of the tribe of Judah, this (f) mighty one, the wifdotn and power of God, to tremble, (g) fweat, cry, pray, wreftle, and that with ftrongfupplications.(b) Some of the popifh devotiomfts tell us that one drop, the leafs, of tile blood of Chrift, was abundantly enough to redeem all the world, but they err, not knowing the defert of fin, nor the feverity of the juftice of God. If one drop, lefs than was fhed, one pang, lefs than was laid on, would have (a) a Cor.v. si. (b) Zech. xiii. 7. Hob.x. j Ira, tiC. 6. (0) Lam. CL 35. (d) Zech xiF. ,. (e) Rev&v. 5. (f) PGI. ,xxxix..g. (g) Prov, viii. v. a Cor. i. 24, (h) Mud). xxvi. 37, 38. biuk xiv, 30, 3e. Lukexxü, 24. Orb. v.7.
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