“When the sins of believers
were laid on him, then he did make full satisfaction unto God the Father, and
divine justice for all our sins. This is a bottom of much comfort. For if the
Lord Jesus Christ our Surety had not satisfied to the utmost farthing, our
great Creditor, God the Father, for all our debts, God the Father might come
upon us the debtors. But our Surety, the Lord Christ, hath given full
satisfaction unto God the Father, that no more demands can be made upon us. And
indeed else, how could our Surety ever have come out of prison: he was under
arrest, he was in the jail, in the grave: the Father, the great Creditor lets
him out; and did not only let him out, but the Lord Jesus Christ, he goes into
heaven, and sits down there at the right hand of the Father; surely, if the
Creditor had not been satisfied, the Surety should never have been released out
of prison…When the Lord Jesus Christ offered up himself a sacrifice unto God
the Father, and had our sins laid upon him, he did give more perfect
satisfaction unto divine justice for our sins, than if you, and I, and all of us
had been damned in hell unto all eternity.”
The Works of the Rev. William
Bridge, Volume 1
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