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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51837	Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition to the doctrine of the Socinians : in several sermons on Col. I, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 verses / by the Reverend Tho. Manton.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1685 (1685)	Wing M520; ESTC R33496	105,834	258

of Ransom to God We are not delivered from this bondage by prayer or intreaty nor by strong hand or meer force nor yet by the sole condescension and pity of the injured party without seeking reparation of the wrong done but by the payment of a sufficient price and just satisfaction to provoked Justice This Price was not payed indeed to Satan who detaineth souls in slavery as a rigid usurping Tyrant or merciless Gaoler from him indeed we are delivered by force but the price was paid to God Man had not sinned against Satan but against God to whom it belongeth to condemn or absolve And God being satisfied Satan hath no power over us but is put out of office As the Executioner hath nothing to do when the Judge and Law is satisfied Now that Redemption implyeth the paying of a price is clear because the word importeth it and the Scripture often uses this Metaphor Matth. 20.28 The son of man came not to be ministred unto but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many 1 Tim. 2 6. Who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time Redemption in the general is a recovery out of our lost estate God could have saved men by the Grace of Confirmation but he chose rather by the Grace of Redemption This recovery was not by a forcible rescue but by a Ransom Christ in recovering his people out of their lost estate is sometimes set forth as a Lamb sometimes as a Lion In dealing with God we consider him as the Lamb slain Rev. 5.5 6. In dealing with Satan and the Enemies of our salvation he doth as a Lion recover the Prey But why was a Ransom necessary Because God had made a former Covenant which was not to be quit and wholly made void but upon valuable consideration least his Justice Wisdom Holiness Veracity Authority should fall to the ground 1. The Honour of his governing Justice was to be secured and freed from any blemish that the awe of God might be kept up in the World Rom. 3.5 6. And Gen. 18.25 That be far from thee to do after this manner to slay the righteous with the wicked and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee shall not the judge of all the earth do right If God should absolutely pardon without satisfaction equivalent for the wrong done how should God else be known and reverenced as the Just and Holy Governour of the World Therefore Rom. 3.25 26. 't is said whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God To declare I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Iesus 2. His Wisdom The Law was not given by God in jest but in the greatest earnest that ever Law was given Now if the Law should be recalled without any more ado the Law-giver would run the hazard of Levity Mutability and Imprudence in constituting so solemne a Transaction to no purpose Paul was troubled when forced to retract his Word 2 Cor. 1.17 18. that his word should be yea to day and nay to Morrow Therefore when God had said Thus I will govern the World he was not to part with the Law upon light Termes 3. His Holy Nature would not permit it There needed some way to be found out to signifie his purest Holiness his hatred and detestation of sin and that it should not be pardoned without some markes of his displeasure His soul hates the wicked and the righteous God loveth Righteousness Psal. 11.6 4. His Authority It would be a derogation from the Authority of his Law if it might be broken and there be no more ado about it Now that all the World might know that it is a dangerous thing to transgress his Laws and might hear and fear and do no more presumptuously God appointed this course that the penalty of his Law should be executed upon our surety when he undertook our Reconciliation with God Gal. 4.4 5. The Veracity and Truth of God It bindeth the Truth of God which sinners are apt to question Gen. 3.5 Hath God said And Deut. 29.19 20. We look upon the Threatnings of the Law as a vain Scare-crow therefore for the Terror and warning of sinners for the future God would not release his Wrath nor release us from the power of Sin and Satan which was the consequent of it without a price and valuable compensation Thirdly None was sit to give this ransom but Jesus Christ who was God man he was man to undertake it in our name and God to perform it in his own strength a man that he might be made under the Law and humbled even to the death of the Cross for our sakes and all this was elevated beyond the worth of created actions and sufferings by the divine nature which was in him which perfumed his humanity and all done by it and in it This put the stamp upon the mettal and made it current Coin imposed an infinite value upon his finite obedience and sufferings By taking humane Nature a price was put into his hands to lay down for us Heb. 10.15 and His divine Nature made it sufficient and responsible for it was the Blood of God Acts 20.28 Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own Blood And Heb. 9.13 For if the Blood of Bulls and Goats and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifyeth to the purifying of the Flesh how much more shall the Blood of Christ who through the spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your Conscience from dead works to serve the Living God It was that Flesh and Blood which was assumed into the unity of his person as a slip or branch grafted into a stock is the branch of the stock and the fruit of it is the fruit of the stock A naked Creature without this Union could not have satisfied the Justice of God for us This made his blood a precious blood and his obedience a precious obedience In short God-man the Son of God and the Son of Adam was he that Redeemed us So in short there were different parties to be dealt with before the fruit of Redemption could be obtained God Satan Man God was an Enemy that could not be overcome but must be reconciled Satan was a usurper and was to be vanquished with a strong hand Man was unable and unwilling to look after the fruits of Redemption and our obstinacy and unbelief could onely be overcome by the Spirit of Christ. Fourthly Nothing performed by Christ could be a sufficient ransom for this end unless he had crowned all his other actions and sufferings by laying down his life and undergoing a bloody and violent death This was the compleating and crowning act Partly to answer the Types of the Law wherein no Remission