Lo, I come to do thy will," Psal. xl. Since I have gotten a body
to be like sinners, I will also come in their place, and I will give my
life a ransom for them; and therefore it is subjoined, "the Redeemer shall
come to Zion;" he shall come clothed with vengeance and indignation as a
garment, against the enemies of his church, sin and Satan, in zeal and
burning love to his designed spouse. He shall strengthen himself, and stir
up his might and fury against all that detain her captive.

Now, indeed, he is the only fittest person for this business in heaven or
earth; for he hath both right to do it, and he only hath might and power
to accomplish it. He hath right to the redemption of sinners, because he
is our kinsman, nearest of blood to us.

Now, you know the right of redemption belonged to the kinsman, Lev. xxv.
25. And therefore when the nearest kinsman could not redeem Naomi and
Ruth's parcel of land, Boaz did it, as being next. And suitable to this,
our Lord Jesus, when others as near could not, and were not able, he hath
done it, and taken men and angels to witness, that he hath first redeemed
us, that he might marry us, as Eph. v.; that he hath purchased us to be
his wife. And indeed the very word imports this; _Goel_,(300) a redeemer
and kinsman, passing under one word: so Job, "I know that my Redeemer," or
my kinsman, "liveth:" and because our kinsman, therefore most interested
in our redemption; for, for this end he became partaker of flesh and blood
with the children, that he might destroy our greatest enemy, Satan, and
redeem us, Heb. ii. 14. And besides, he hath right to redemption, as the
Church's husband, because he must mediate between her and all others; none
can reach her, except he please, or prosecute a plea against her, as in
the case of the wife's making a vow, if her husband consented not, it was
void, (Numb. xxx.,) but if he heard of it and held his peace, it was
confirmed. Now the Lord Jesus hath known this deplorable estate in which
we are captives, and he hath testified his utter dislike of our binding
over ourselves to death, and resigning ourselves to Satan; and therefore
this bondage in which we are detained, is not confirmed and ratified, but
he hath right remaining to redeem us from the hand of all our enemies. But
then, he alone hath might and power to do it, for God hath laid help on
him, and made him able and mighty to save us to the uttermost. It was not
gold or silver, or corruptible t