322 ofCaoMMUNIUN eu2t I (hall be the more brief in handling of this, becaufe on another defign (a) I have elfewhere at large treated of all the concernments of it. Now the death of Chrilt, as it is a fpring of that purchafed grace where., in we have communion with him, is in the fcripture propofed under a threefold confederation. Of a price ; Ofa facrifice ; Of a penalty. In the firft regard its proper effete is redemption, in the fecond reconcili- ation or attonement, in the third fatisfateion; which are the great ingredi- ents of that purchafed grace whereby in the firft place we have communi- on with Chrift. [1..) It is a price, We are bought with a price, t Cor. vi. 20. Being not redeemedwith laver andgold, and corruptible things, but with theprecious blood of ChriJi,. t Pet. i. 17, 18. which therein anfwers those things in eeher contrates (b), He cante to lay down his life a ranfom for many, Mattli. xx. 28. A price of redemption, t Tim. ii. 6. The proper ufe and energy of this expreffion in the fcripture, I have elfewhere declared. Now the proper effete and iffue of the death of Chrift as a price or ran- fom, is as I faid, redemption. Now redemption is the deliverance of any one from bondage, or captivity, and the miferies attending that condition, by the intervention or interpofition of a price or ranfom pay'd by the redeemer to him by whofe authority the captive was detained. x.) In general it is a deliverance, hence Chrift is called the deliverer, Rom. xi. 26. giving himfelf to deliver us, Gal. i. 4. he isJefus who delivers us from the wrath to come, x Theff. i. io. 2.) It is the delivery of one from bondage or captivity; we are without him, all prifoners and captives, hound in prifon, Ifa. lxi. 1. Sitting in darknefs, in the prifon boufe, Ifa. xlii. 7. Chap. xlix. 9. Prifoners in the pit wherein there is no water, Zech.ix. i 1. The captives of the mighty and theprey of the terrible, Ifa. xlix. 25. under a captivity that mutt be led cap- tive, Pfal. lxviii. 18. this puts us in bondage, Heb. ii. 14. 3.) The perfon committing thus toprifon and into bondage, is God him- felf. To him we owe our debts, Matt. vi. 12. Chap. xviii. 27, 28, 29, 5GA ainfl him are our offences, Pfal. li. 5. He is the judge and law-giver, mes iv. 12. to fin is to rebel againft him. He Ihuts up men under difo- bediente, Rom. xi. 32. And he (hall caft both body and foul of the im e- nitent into hell-fire, Matt. x. 28. To his wrath are men obnoxious, Yoh. ìü. 36. and lie under it by the fentence of thelaw, which is their prifon. 4.) The miferies that attend this condition are innumerable, bondage to faran, fin, and the world- comprizes the fum of them, from all which we are delivered by the death of Chrift as a price or ranfom. God loath deli- vered us from the power of darknefs, and bath tranflated us into the king- dom of his dear fon, in whom we have redemption through his blood, Col. e. 13, 14. And he redeems us from all iniquity, Tit. ìi. 14. from our vain converfation, x Pet. i. 18, 19. even from the guilt and power of our fin, putchafing us to himfelf a peculiar people zealous ofgood works, Tit. ii. 14. fo dying for the redemption of tranfgreffors, Heb. ix. 15. Redeeming us al- fo from the world, Gal. iv. 5. 4.) And all this is by the payment of the price mentioned into the hand of God, by whofe fupreme authority, we were detained captives under the a(d m V imdaigcn aEm vnm. p to b2, B. . (b) Nil guidon em:tur u interveniente preto l fed hoc omen fentence
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