01t the P a(fio1t. 309 , his lift a rat~{om for many *·. The race of , n1ankind,.by their apofl:afy from God, were become liable to his wrath, and all the dreadful effeCts of his vengeance: the eter– nal Son of God, the Wifdom of the Father, whofe delights were always with the fons of men, refolveth to make up the breach, and refl:ore us again unto his Father's love~ but firfl: he n1ufl: repair the honour of God, and fecure the authority of the divine law; which could not be done, but by fome fig- · nil evidence of God's difp_leafu~e againfl: iln, and foa1e valuable compenfation of the puniihn1ent th.at had been denounced a– gainfl: it: and therefore hi1nfelf was pleafed to take our nature upon him, appear in the fimilitude of finful fteih, to lead a miferable and affliCted life in the world, and at lall: / to offer it up as a propitiation for us; that mercy and truth might meet together, and ' righteoufnefs and peace rnig·ht kifl each o– ther t; and that God might at once be jufl, and alfo the juflifier ·of him that believeth itt ·Jefos . +· Thus then the bletfed Jefus en– duredall thefe dreadful fufferings for us and for our fins. In vain do we exclain1 againft · the treafon of Judas, the n1alice of the Jews, the injufiice of Pilate; we have . ourfdves "* Mat.th. xx. 28. t Pfal. lxxxv. 10. t R.om. iii. :20.
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