die our selves for our Sins Or 6. That sin may be pardoned without a satisfaction Or 7. That every man may merit his own Salvation But without shedding of Blood there is no Remission Heb. 9. 22. To avoid therefore these cursed Absurdities it must be granted that Jesus Christ by his Death did make satisfaction for sin But the word Satisfaction may not be used by the Holy Ghost perhaps for that it is too short and scanty a Word to express the Blessedness that comes to Sinners by the Blood of Christ. 1. To make satisfaction amounts to no more than compleatly to answer a legal Demand for harms and injuries done Now this when done to the full leaveth the Offender there where he was before he committed the Injury Now if Christ had done no more than this he had only paid our debt but had not obtained eternal redemption for us 2. For a full Satisfaction given by this Man for harms done by another may neither obtain the Love of the Person offended nor the smallest Gift which the Person offending hath not deserved Suppose I owe to this Man ten thousand Talents and another should pay him every Farthing there remaineth over and above by that compleat Satisfaction not one single half-Penny for me Christ hath therefore done more than to make satisfaction for sin by his Blood He hath also made us Kings and Priests to God and his Father and we shall reign with him for ever and ever Revel 1. 5 6. Chap. 22. 5. But take a few more Scriptures for the Proof of the Doctrine before asserted First We have redemption through his Blood Col. 1. 14. 1. Redemption from Sin Ephes. 1. 7. 2. Redemption from Death Heb. 2. 14 15. Hos. 13. 14. 3. Redemption from Satan Heb. 2. 15. 4. Redemption from the World Gal. 1. 4. 5. Redemption to God Revel 5. 9. 6. Eternal Redemption Neither by the Blood of Goats and Calves but by his own Blood he entered in once into the Holy Place having obtained Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 12. Secondly We are said also to be washed in his Blood 1. Our Persons are washed He loved US and washed US from our Sins in his own Blood Rev. 1. 5. 2. His Blood washeth also our Performances Our Robes are washed and made white in the Blood of the Lamb Revel 7. 14. Thirdly We are said to be purged by his Blood 1. Purged from Sin before God When he had by himself purged our Sins he sat down on the Right Hand of God Heb. 1. 3. 2. Purged from evil Consciences How much more shall the Blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your Conscience from dead works to serve the Living God Heb. 9. 14. Fourthly We are said to be made nigh to God by his Blood But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were afar off are made nigh by the Blood of Christ Ephes. 2. 13. Fifthly Peace is said to be made by his Blood 1. Peace with God Col. 1. 20. 2. Peace of Conscience Heb. 10. 19 20 21 22. 3. Peace one with another Ephes. 2. 14. Sixthly We are said to be justified by his Blood Much more being now justified by his Blood we shall be saved from wrath through him Rom. 5. 9. Justified that is acquitted 1. Acquitted before God Ephes. 5. 25 26. 2. Acquitted before Angels Mat. 28. 5. 3. Acquitted by the Law Rom. 3. 21 22 23. 4. Acquitted in the Court of Conscience Heb. 9. 14. Seventhly We are said to be saved by his Blood Rom. 5. 8 9. Eightly We are said to be reconciled by his Blood Col. 1. 2◠21 22. Ninthly We are said to be sanctified by his Blood Heb. 13. 12. Tenthly We are said to be admitted into the Holiest by his Blood Heb. 10. 19. Eleventhly We are said to have Eternal Redemption by his Blood Heb. 9. 12. Yea Lastly This Blood which was once spilt upon the Cross will be the burden of our Song in Heaven it self for ever and ever Revel 5. 9. Now if we be redeemed washed purged made nigh to God have peace with God if we stand just before God are saved reconciled sanctified admitted into the Holiest if we have eternal Redemption by his Blood and if his Blood will be the burden of our Song for ever then hath Christ paid the full price for us by his Death then hath he done more than made satisfaction for our Sins Several Demonstrations more proving the former Doctrine BUt before I conclude this Answer I will give you nine or ten more undeniable Demonstrations to satisfie you if God will bless them to you in the Truth of this great Doctrine to wit That Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath paid the full Price to God for the Souls of Sinners and obtained Eternal Redemption for them The first Demonstration ANd First I begin with his Resurrection THAT God that delivered him up unto death and that made him a Curse for Sin THAT God raised him up from the dead But God raised him from the Dead Act. 3. 15. Chap. 13. 30. Now considering that at his Death he was charged with our Sins and accursed to death for our Sins That Justice that delivered him up for them must have amends made to him before he acquit him from them for there can be no change in Justice Had he found him in 〈◊〉 Sins in the Grave as he found him in them upon the Tree for he had them in his Body on the Tree 1 Pet. 2. 24. he had left him there as he left him upon the Tree yea he had as surely rotted in the Grave as ever he died on the Tree But when he visited Christ in the Grave he found him a Holy Harmless Undefiled and Spotless Christ and therefore he raised him up from the Dead He raised him up from the dead having loosed the Pains of Death because it was not possible that he should be helden of it Act. 2. 24. Quest. But why not possible now to be helden of death Ans. Because the Cause was removed Sin was the Cause he died for our Sins he gave himself for our Sins 1 Cor. 15. 1 2 3. Gal. 1. 4. These Sins brought him to death But when God that had made him a Curse for us looked upon him into the Grave he found him there without sin and therefore loosed the Pains of Death for Justice saith This is not possible because not lawful that he who lieth sinless before God should be swallowed up of death therefore he raised him up Quest. But what did he do with our Sins for he had them upon his Back Ans. 'T is said he TOOK them away Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the World 'T is said he PUT them away Now once in the End of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself Joh. 1. 29. Heb. 9. 26. That is by the Merit of his undertaking he
and the Blood of Goats and Birds These Bloody Sacrifices what did they signifie what were they figures of but of the bloody Sacrifice of the Body of Jesus Christ their Blood being a Shadow of his Blood and their Flesh being a Shadow of his Flesh Therefore when God declared that he took no pleasure in them because they could not make the Worshippers perfect as pertaining to the Conscience then comes Jesus Christ to offer his Sinless Body and Soul for the Sin of the People For it is not possible that the Blood of Bulls and Goats should take away sin wherefore when he cometh into the World he saith Sacrifices and Offerings thou wouldest not but a Body hast thou prepared me in Burnt-Offerings and Sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure Then said I to I come in the Volume of thy Book it is written of me to do thy good Will Since Burnt-Offerings cannot do thy Will my Body shall since the Blood of Bulls and Goats cannot do thy Will my Blood shall Then follows By the Will of God we are Sanctified through the offering up of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all Heb. 10. 8 9 10. Thirdly The End of the Work required That Christ if he will be our Saviour should take upon him our Flesh. The End of our Salvation is That we might enjoy God and that he by us might be glorified for ever and ever 1. That we might enjoy God I will dwell in them and they shall be my People and I will be their God This Indwelling of God and consequently our Enjoyment of him begins first in its Eminency by his Possessing our Flesh in the Person of Jesus Christ. Hence his Name is called Emmanuel God with us and the Word was made Flesh and dwelt amongst us The Flesh of Christ is the Tabernacle which the Lord pitched according to that saying The Tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his People and God himself shall be with them and be their God Revel 21. 3. Here God beginneth to discover his Glory and to be desirable to the Sons of Men. God could not communicate himself to us nor take us into the Enjoyment of himself but with respect to that Flesh which his Son took of the Virgin because sin stood betwixt Now this Flesh only was the Holy Lump in this Flesh God could dwell and forasmuch as this Flesh is the same with ours and was taken up with intent that what was done in and by that should be communicated to all the Children therefore through that doth God communicate of himself unto his People God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself And I am the Way saith Christ no man cometh to the Father but by me 2 Cor. 5. Joh. 14. 6. That Passage to the Hebrews is greatly to our purpose We have boldness Brethren to enter into the Holiest the place where God is by the Blood of Jesus by a new and living Way which he hath Consecrated for us through the Vail that is to say his Flesh Heb. 10. 19 20. Wherefore by the Flesh and Blood of Christ we enter into the Holiest through the Vail saith he that is to say his Flesh. 2. As the End of our Salvation is That we might enjoy God so also it is that he by us might be Glorified for ever That God in all things might be Glorified through Jesus Christ our Lord. Here indeed will the Mistery of his Grace Wisdom Justice Power Holiness and Glory inhabit Eternal praise while we that are counted worthy of the Kingdom of God shall admire at the Mistery and see our selves without our selves even by the Flesh and Blood of Christ through Faith therein effectually and Eternally saved O! This will be the burden of our Eternal Joy God loved us and gave his Son for us Christ loved us and gave his Flesh for our Life and his Blood for our Eternal Redemption and Salvation That Christ was made under the Law BUt Secondly Christ was made under the Law When the fulness of the time was come God sent forth his Son made of a Woman made under the Law Gal. 4. 4. Of right being found in flesh he must needs be under the Law for that there is not any Creature above or without Law to God but this is not to the point in hand Christ was not therefore under the Law because he was found in flesh but he took flesh and designedly put himself or was made under the Law wherefore 't is added he was made under the Law to Redeem to redeem them that were under the Law Wherefore here is a design an Heavenly contrivance and device on foot Christ is made that is by design subjected under the Law for the sake and upon the account of others To redeem them that were under the Law Made under the Law that is put himself into the Room of Sinners into the Condition of Sinners made himself subject to the same pains and penalties we were obnoxious to We were under the Law and it had dominion over us bound us upon pain of Eternal Damnation to do compleatly all things written in the Law This Condition Christ put himself into that he might redeem for assuredly we had else perished The Law had dominion over us and since we had sinned of right it pronounced the Curse and made all men subject to the Wrath of God Christ therefore did not only come into our Flesh but also into our Condition into the Valley and Shadow of Death where we were and where we are as we are Sinners He that is under the Law is under the Edge of the Axe When David was to go visit his Brethren and to save them from the Hand of Goliah he was to look how his Brethren fared and to take their Pledg 1. Sam. 17. 18. This is true of Jesus Christ when he came to save us from the Hand of Death and the Law he looked how his Brethren fared took to heart their deplorable Condition and put himself into the same Plight to wit under the Law that he might redeem them that were under the Law I told you before that he came sinless into the World that he had a miraculous Conception and wonderful Birth And here you see a Reason for it he was to be put or made under the Law to redeem He that will be made under the Law to redeem had need be sinless and spotless himself for the Law findeth fault with the least and condemneth man for the first beginning of Sin Without this then there could not have been Redemption nor any the Sons of God by Adoption no Redemption because the Sentence of Death had already past upon all no Sons by Adoption because that 's the Effect of Redemption God sent forth his Son made of a Woman made under the Law to redeem them that were under the Law That we might receive the Adoption of Sons Christ then
This Act of Ascending answereth to the High-Priest under the Law who after they had killed the Sacrifice he was to bring the Blood into the most Holy Place to wit the inner-Temple the Way to which was ascending or going up 2 Chron. 9. Now consider the Circumstances that attended his Ascending when he went to carry his Blood to present it before the Mercy-Seat and you will find they all say amends is made to God for us 1. At this He is again attended and accompanied with Angels Act. 1. 10 11. 2. He ascendeth with a shout with the sound of a Trumpet with sing Praises sing Praises sing Praises Psal. 47. 5 6. 3. The Enemies of mans Salvation are now tied to his Chariot-wheels When he ascended on High he led captivity captive Ephes. 4. that is he led Death Devils and Hell and the Grave and the Curse captive for these things were our Captivity And thus did Deborah prophecy of him when she cried Arise Barak and lead thy Captivity captive thou Son of Abinoam This David also fore-saw when he said Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led Captivity captive Judges 5. 12. Psal. 68. 18. 4. The Apostles must be the Beholders of his going up and must see the Cloud receive him out of their Sight Act. 1. 11 12. The Consideration of these things strongly inforceth this Conclusion That he hath spoiled what would have spoiled us had he not by his Bloodshed taken them away And I say for God to adorn him with all this Glory in his Ascension THUS to make him ride Conqueror up into the Clouds THUS to go up with found of Trumpet with shout of Angels and with Songs of Praises and let me add to be accompanied also with those that rose from the Dead after his Resurrection who were the very Price of his Blood This doth greatly demonstrate That Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath paid full price to God for the Souls of Sinners and obtained Eternal Redemption for them he had not else rid thus in Triumph to Heaven 2. I come now to his being Received He was received up into Heaven The High-Priest under the Law when he ascended into the Holiest he was there to offer the Blood which Holiest was the Type of Heaven Exod. 19. 10 11. Heb. 9. 24. But because the Sacrifices under the Law could not make them that did the Service perfect as pertaining to the Conscience therefore they were to stand not sit to come out again not tarry there For it is not possible that the Blood of Bulls and Goats should take away sin wherefore when he cometh into the World he saith Sacrifice and Offerings thou wouldest not but a Body hast thou prepared me In Burnt-Offerings and Sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure Then said he lo I come in the Volume of thy Book it is written of me to do thy will O God Heb. 10. 4 5 6. Christ therefore in his entering into Heaven did it as High-Priest of the Church of God Therefore neither did he go in without Blood Wherefore when he came to be an High-Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made with hands that is to say not of this Building neither by the Blood of Bulls and Goats but by his own Blood he entered in once into the Holy Place having obtained Eternal Redemption for us Heb. 9. 12 13 14. He entered in having obtained or because he obtained Eternal Redemption for us but to pass that Consider ye now also those Glorious Circumstances that accompany his Approach to the Gates of the Everlasting Habitation 1. The Everlasting Gates are set yea bid stand open Be ye open ye Everlasting Doors and the King of Glory shall come in This King of Glory is Jesus Christ and the Words are a Prophecy of his Glorious Ascending into the Heavens when he went up as the High-Priest of the Church to carry the Price of his Blood into the Holiest of all Lift up your Heads O ye Gates even lift them up ye Everlasting Doors and the King of Glory shall come in Psalm 24. 7 9. 2dly At his Enterance he was received and the Price accepted which he paid for our Souls Hence it is said He entered in by his Blood that is by the Merit of it To Receive is an Act of Complacency and Delight and includeth Well-pleasedness in the Person Receiving who is God the Father And considering that this Jesus now received is to be received upon our account or as undertaking the Salvation of Sinners for he entered into the Heavens for us it is apparent that he entered thither by vertue of his Infinite Righteousness which he accomplished for us upon the Earth 3dly At his Reception he received Glory and that also for our Encouragement God raised him up and gave him Glory that our Faith and Hope might be in him 1 Pet. 1. 19 20 21. He gave him Glory as a Testimony that his undertaking the Work of our Redemption was accepted of him 1. He gave Glory first to his Person in granting him to sit at his own Right Hand and this he had I say for or upon the account of the Work he accomplished for us in the World When he had offered up one Sacrifice for Sins for ever he sat down on the Right Hand of God Heb. 10. 12 13. and this by God's appointment Sit thou at my Right Hand This Glory is the Highest it is above all Kings Princes and Potentates in this World it is above all Angels Principalities and Powers in Heaven He is gone into Heaven and is on the Right Hand of God Angels and Authorities and Powers being made Subject unto him 1 Pet. 3. 22. 2. He gave Glory to his Name to his Name JESUS that Name being exalted above every Name He hath given him a Name above every Name that at the Name of Jesus every Knee should bow of things in Heaven and things on Earth and things under the Earth and that every Tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the Glory of God the Father Phil. 2. This Name is said in another place to be a Name above every Name that is Named not only in this World but in that also which is to come Ephes. 1. 21. But should JESUS have been such a Name since he undertook for Sinners had this Undertaker failed in his Work if his Work had not been accepted with God even the Work of our Redemption by his Blood No verily it would have stunk in both the Nostrils of God and Man it would have been the most abhorred Name but JESUS is the Name JESUS he was called in order to his Work His Name shall be called JESUS for he shall save He was so named of the Angels before he was conceived in the Womb and he goeth by that Name now he is in Heaven By the Name Jesus Jesus of Nazareth because he once dwelt there This Name I say
Sin but that we could not be were it not that an Atonement is made for us first by the Blood of Christ our Saviour This is true for they that are quickned by the Holy Ghost are quickned by it through the Word of the Gospel which offereth Justification to Sinners through Faith in his Blood yea we are said to be quickned together with him dead and risen with him yet so as by the Spirit of God 2. We are not only quickned by the Holy Ghost but possessed therewith it is given to dwell in our Hearts Because ye are Sons God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts Gal. 4. 4 5 6. which Spirit is also our earnest for Heaven until the Redemption of the purchased Possession that is until our Body which is the purchased Possession be redeemed also out of the Grave by the Power of the same mighty Spirit of God Ephes. 1. 13 14. 3. By this Holy Spirit we are made to believe Rom. 15. 13. 4. By this Holy Spirit we are helped to pray and call God Father 5. By this Holy Spirit we are helped to understand and apply the Promises 6. By this Holy Spirit the Joy of Heaven and the Love of God is shed abroad in the Heart of the Saved 7. By this Holy Spirit we are made to wait for the hope of Righteousness by Faith that is to stand fast through our Lord Jesus in the day when he shall judg the World And all this is the Fruit of Redemption by Blood of Redemption by the Blood of Christ. This is yet further evident 1. Because the Work of the Spirit is to lead us into the sayings of Christ which as to our Redemption from death are such as these I lay down my Life that you may have Life I give my Life a Ransom for many And the Bread which I will give is my Flesh which I will give for the Life of the World Joh. 6. 2. Because IF the Spirit in the Wisdom of Heaven is not counted a sufficient Testimony on Earth but as joyned with the Blood of Christ. There are three that bear witness on Earth the Spirit the Water and the Blood These are the Witness of God The Spirit because it quickneth the Blood because it hath merited and the Watter to wit the Word because by that we are clean as to life and conversation 1 John 5. 8. Ephes. 5. 26. Rom. 8. 16. Psal. 119. 9. 3. Because as by the Spirit so we are sanctified by Faith in the Blood of Jesus Heb. 13. 12. 4. Because when most full of the Spirit when that doth work most mightly in us we are then most in the belief and admiring apprehensions of our deliverance from death by the Blood of Jesus Revel 15. Chap. 5. 9. 5. The Holy Ghost breaheth no-where so as in the Ministry of this Doctrine this Doctrine is sent WITH the Holy Ghost from Heaven yea as I have hinted one of the Great Works of the Holy Ghost under the Old-Testament was to testifie of the Sufferings of Christ and the Glory that should follow 1 Pet. 1. 11 12. Put all these things together and see if Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath not paid full price to God for Sinners if he hath not obtained Eternal Redemption for them The Fourth Demonstration THat Jesus Christ by what he hath done hath paid full price to God for Sinners and obtained Eternal Redemption for them is evident if you consider how the preaching thereof hath been from that time to this a mighty Conquerer over all kind of Sinners What Nation what People what kind of Sinners have not been subdued by the preaching of a Crucified Christ. He upon the White Horse with his Bow and his Crown hath conquered doth conquer and goeth forth yet conquering and to conquer Revel 6. 2. And I saith he if I be lifted up from the Earth will draw all men unto me but what was it to be lifted up from the Earth Why it may be expounded by that saying As Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wilderness so must the Son of Man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him might not perish but have everlasting life Joh. 12. 32. Chap. 3. 14 15. He was then lifted up when he was hanged upon a Tree between the Heavens and the Earth as the Accursed of God for us The Revelation of this it conquers all Nations Tongues and People And they sang a new Song saying thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation Revel 5. 9. Hence the Apostle Paul chose above all Doctrines to preach up a Crucified Christ and resolved so to do For I determined saith he not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified 1 Cor. 2. 2 3. 1. The Doctrine of Forgiveness of Sin conquered his very Murderers They could not withstand the Grace them bloody ones that would kill him what-ever it cost them could stand no longer but received his Doctrine fell into his Bosom and obtained the Salvation which is in Christ Jesus They shall look upon him whom they have pierced and mourn for him as one mourneth for his only Son they shall be in bitterness for him as one is in bitterness for his first-born Zech. 12. 10. Now was this Scripture eminently fulfilled when the Kindness of a Crucified Christ broke to pieces the Hearts of them that had before been his Betrayers and Murderers Now was there a great mourning in Jerusalem now was there wailing and lamentation mixed with joy and rejoycing 2. Though Paul was mad exceeding mad against Jesus Christ of Nazareth yea though he was his avowed Enemy seeking to put out his Name from under Heaven yet the Voice from Heaven I am Jesus c. I am the Saviour how did it conquer him make him throw down his Arms fall down at his Feet and accept of the forgiveness of Sins freely by grace through Redemption by Faith in his Blood 3. They at Samaria though before Philip preached to them worshipped and admired the Devil in Magus yet when they believed Philip's preaching of Christ unto them and forgiveness of sins through Faith in his Name great joy was amongst them and they were baptized both Men and Women Act. 8. He preached saith the Text the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the Name of Jesus Christ that is all the Blessings of Life through the Name of Jesus Christ for he is the Mediator and without his Blood come no spiritual blessings to men 4. How was the sturdy Jailer overcome by a Promise of forgiveness of sins by Faith in Jesus Christ. It stopt his Hand of self-murder it eased him of the gnawings of a guilty Conscience and fears of Hell-Fire and filled his Soul with rejoicing in God Act. 16. 30 31 32 33. 5. How