Seventhly. That this love tuas the same in Father and Son, acted distinctly in the manner that shall be afterward declared ; so, vain are the pretences of men, who, from the love of the Father in this mat- ter, would argue against the love of the Son, or on the contrary.
Eighthly. That the way, in general, whereby the Son of God, being incarnate, was to save lost sinners, was hy a substitution of himself , according to the design and appointment of God, in the room of those whom he was to save: — 2 Cor. v. 21, " He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin ; that we might become the righteous- ness of God in him." Gal. iii. 13, " Christ hath redeemed us from
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the turse of the law, being made a curse for us." Rom. v. 7, 8, " For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Chap. viii. 3, " For what the law could not do, in that it was weak tlirough the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh ; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us." 1 Pet. ii. 24, " Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree." Chap. iii. 18, " For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that lie might bring us to God." All these expressions undeniably evince a substitution of Christ as to suffering in the stead of them whom, he was to save; which, in general, is all that we intend by his satisfaction, — namely, that he was made " sin for us," a " curse for us," " died for us," that is, in our stead, that we might be saved from the wrath to come. And all these expressions, as to their true, genuine import- ance, shall be vindicated as occasion shall require.
Ninthly. This way of his saving sinners is, in particular, several ways expressed in the Scripture. As, —
1 . That he offered himself a sacrifice to God, to make atonement for our sins; and that in his death and sufferings: — Isa. liii. 10, " When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin." John i. 29, " Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world." Eph. V. 2, " Christ hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour." Heb. ii. 1 7, W^as " a merciful high pi-iest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciHation for the sins of the people." Chap. ix. 1 1-14, " But Christ being come 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 goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, havmg obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls," etc., " how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your consciences from dead works?"
2. That he redeemed us by paying a price, a ransom, for our re- demption:— Mark x, 45, " The Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many." 1 Cor. vi. 20, vii. 23, " For ye are bought with a price." 1 Tim. ii. 6, " Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." Tit. ii. 1 4, " Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity." 1 Pet. i. 18, 19, " For ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold ; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."
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3. That he bare our sins, or the punishment due unto them : — Isa. liii. 5, 6, " He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on hmi the iniquity of us all." Verse 11, " For he shall bear their iniqui- ties." 1 Pet. ii. 2-i, " Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree."
4. That he ansiOered the Imu and the penalty of it:— ^om. viu. 3, 4, " God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh ; that the righteousness of the law might' be fulfilled in us." Gal. iii. 13, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." Chap. iv. 4, 5, " God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law."