SERMON XXXIV. 4i9 thatmen might, be redeemed by the offering the body of Christ, oncefor all; ver. 10. It was in the prospect of the Son of God boomingman, by taking flesh and blood upon him, that God spake thus for David; Ps. lxxxix. 19. " I have exalted one chosen out of the people; that is, out of mankind : I have laid help upon one that is mighty: Andwhen he was found in fashion as a man ;" Phil. ii. 10. God laid on him the iniquities of us all by imputation ; Is. lüi. 5, 6. even as the sins, and iniquities, and trespasses ofthe children of Israel were laid on the headof the goat of old, by the confession and hand of Aaron ; Lev. xvi. 21. When the guilt was thus transferred to him, as far as it was possible for the Son of God to sustain it, he then became liable to punishment ; and indeed that seems to me to be the truest and and justestidea oftransferredor imputed guilt, viz. when a surety is accepted to suffer in the room of the offender, then the pain of penalty is due to him by consent : And as this is the true original and foundation of expiatory sacrifices, as I have shewn before, so this seems to be the foundationof that particularmanner, wherein scripture teaches us this doctrine " He that knew no sin was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God inhim ;" 2 Cor. v. 21. " His own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree ;" 1 Pet. ii. 24. " The chastisement or punish- ment of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed ; '- Is. lüi. 5. And in many other places of scripture we read the same sort of language. This doctrine is supported with great strength, by themost learned and pious Dr. Owen, in his short treatise of the satisfaction ofChrist. Upon this account, though God the Father was never truly angry with his beloved on yet it pleased the Father to bruise him, when he stood in the room of guilty creatures. The .Fa- ther himself put him to grief, and made his soul an offering for sin Is. liii. 10. Then the Son of God began to be sore amazed, and veryheavy at the approaching deluge ofthis sorrow; Mark xiv. 33. The Father forsook him for a season, withdrew his comfortable influences, and gave him some such exquisite sightand sense of that indignation and wrath that was due to sin, as filled his holy soul with anguish, "his soul was exceeding sorrowful even unto death ;" Mat. xxvi. 38. While his body sweat drops ofblood in the garden : Andat last he pouredout his soul to death, and "gave his life a ransomfor many : he recon- ciled us to God by the blood ofhis cross ;" Col. i. 20. Though we allow the human nature of Christ to be the highest, the noblest, and best of creatures, and in that sense might>be worth ten thousand of us : yet if sin has an infinite evil 1 OL. 1. I i
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