Volume XII. more reasonable and fatisfactory account of it, than any of those do, who are fo apt to flight them. ! The Use of this Doctrine is as fol lows. First, To perfwade men to place all their hope and confidence of Salvation in Jefus Chrift the Son of God ; that is, to believe that through the alone merit of his Death and Sufferings God is reconciled to us, and that only upon the account of the Satisfaction which he hath made to Divine Juftice, we are reftored to the favour of God, and our fins are pardon'd to us, and we have a title to eternal life. Not but that there are Conditions required on our part, to make us capable of thefe Benefits, Faith and Repentance and fincere Obedience and Holinefs of life, without which we fhall never be made partakers of them: but that the Satisfaction of Chrift is the only meritorious Cause of thefe bleffings. And to perfwade men to the belief of this, I fhall endeavour to fatisfie them of these two things. J. That X. I. That Chrift hath properly me. Sermon rited these Bleffings for us. II. That he only hath done it. The first of these Propofitions is directly levell'd against the Socinians: the fecond against the Papifts. I fhall fpeak but briefly of them. I. That Christ hath properly merited these Bleffings for us. And this being purely matter of Revelation, we are to rely upon Scripture only for the proof of it. Matt. 20. 28. The Son of man came not to be minifter'd unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many, λύτρον ἀντὶ πολλῶν, a price of Redemption, instead of that which should have been paid by us. John 6. 51. And the bread which I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. John 10. 11. Chrift is call'd the good Shepherd that lays down his life for his Sheep. John 15. 12, 13. This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Matth. 26. 28. For this XII. is my blood of the new testament, which Volume is bed for many, for the remiffion of fins. Rom. 5. 6. For when we were yet without ftrength, in due time Chrift died for the ungodly. 1. Cor. 15. 3. For I delivered unto you first of all, that which I also received, how that Chrift died for our fins according to the Scriptures. 2 Cor. 5. 14, 15. For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge; that if one dyed for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themfelves, but unto him which died for them, and rofe again. Eph. 1. 7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of fins, according to the riches of his grace. Col. 1. 20, 21, 22. And (having made peace through the blood of his cross) by him to reconcile all things unto himself, by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you that were. fometime alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled, in the body of his flefb through death, to prefent you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his fight. fight. 1 Theff. 5. 9, 10. For God hath not appointed us to wrath: but Sermon to obtain falvation by our Lord Jefus X. Chrift, who died for us. Heb. 2.9. That he by the grace of God should tafte death for every man. Heb. 9. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. But Chrift being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to fay, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entred in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the afbes of an heifer, Sprinkling the unclean, fanctifyeth to the purifying of the flesh; how much more ball the blood of Chrift, who through the eternal Spirit offered him, felf without Spot to God, purge your confcience from dead works, to ferve the living God? And for this caufe he is the Mediatour of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the tranfgreffions that were under the first Teftament, they which are called might receive the promife of eternal inheritance. And ver. 25, 26, 27, 28. Nor yet that he should offer himself of ten ten, as the high priest entreth into the Volume holy place every year with blood of oXII. thers: (For then must he often have Suffered fince the foundation of the world :) but now once in the end of the world, hath he appeared to put away fin by the facrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: fo Chrift was once offered to bear the fins of many; and unto them that Look for him, fhall he appear the second time, without fin, unto falvation. Heb. 10. 11, 12. And every priest standeth daily miniftring and offering oftentimes the fame facrifices, which can never take away fins: but this man, after he had offered one facrifice for fins, for ever fate down on the right hand of God. 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. Forafmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as filver and gold, from your vain converfation received by tradition from your fathers: but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without fpot. 1 Pet.2. 21,24. Because Christ alfo fuffered for us; who his own felf bare our fins,in his own body, on the tree. I Pet. 3. 18. For Chrift allo hath once fuffered for fins, the just I for |