hings. Suppose the whole earth were turned
into gold or precious stones; he must give person for person, and one
person equivalent to all--his own life, his own blood for us; and the value
of this was infinitely raised by the stamp of his divinity put upon it.
The king for the servant,--one that knew no sin for sinners,--yea, God for
man. This superadds infinite worth, and makes it an over-ransom, and over
purchase, a ransom to buy our persons from hell, a purchase to redeem us
to our inheritance, heaven, that we had lost, and these two styles it
gets, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}.(301)

Now, you see the great difficulty is overcome and taken out of the way:
Christ, being made a curse, hath purchased a redemption from the curse of
the law, Gal. iii. 13. But yet, there is another point of vast distance, I
may say contrariety and enmity, between us and him. He is holy and
undefiled, all fair, and no spot in him; we are wholly defiled and
depraved by sin, our souls are become the habitation of devils, and a cage
of every unclean and hateful bird; in a word, he hath not only our enemies
to overcome, but our own hearts to conquer, and our enmity to take away.
This makes the widest separation from him. Now, he filled up much of the
distance, with his taking our flesh, and he removed the great difficulty,
by dying in our flesh his humiliation to be a man, brought him nearer us,
and his further humiliation to be a dying, crucified, and buried man,
brought him yet a step nearer us. But nearer he cannot come, for lower he
cannot be, except he were a sinner, which would mar the whole design, and
take away all the comfort of his likeness to us. Therefore, since he hath
come so low down to us, it is suitable we be raised up one step to meet
him, and so the exaltation of sinners shall make up all the distance, and
bring the two parties to that long since designed, and long desired
meeting. Now, for this end and purpose, the Son undertakes the redemption
of his church from sin and ungodliness as well as wrath, and therefore you
have that w