the left hand of God where the Goats are cursed, is the Law, and the right hand of God where the Sheep are blessed, is the Gospel; the left hand of God is also his wrath, and the right hand is his love, and he saith to those on the left hand, as un∣der wrath, manifested by the Law, Go ye cursed, for ye be∣lieve not, and are damned; and he saith to those on his right hand, as under love, Joy and peace manifested by the Gospel, come ye blessed, for you believe, and are saved.
Now all men for a time, before they believe and are regene∣rated, are at the left hand of God under the Law cursed, For he that breaks but one Commandment is guilty of all, and all have sinned; and God hath concluded all men undersin, and unbelief, that he might have mercie upon all: Now all men being so under the curse, and under the Law, at the left hand of God, cannot be said to come from thence to the right hand, to receive the blessing and mercie, but by his stretching forth his right hand to take them from his left, as 'tis written, All the day long have I stretched forth my arm to a disobedient, re∣bellious, and gainsaying people. Now what is this Arm of God, but the Lord Jesus Christ, freelie and in love held forth by the Father to the worst of sinners, and that would not receive him, For he came to his own, and his own received him not; therefore saith the Prophet Isaiah, Who hath believed our re∣port? and to whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed? even to sinners, and them that were out of the way, to them is Jesus Christ manifested for the knowledge of those things.
And according to this did Jesus Christ come and put himself under the Law, and under the curse, at the left hand of God, to receive the wrath and the curse due to us, and all this he did for us, to bring us to the right hand of God, that we might receive the forgivenesse of sins through him and so be blessed for evermore in him, for whatsoever we were, Christ made himself the same, and all to redeem poor man from the curse he lay under: Was man under the Law? so was Christ: Was man accursed for sin? so was Christ: In Leviticus 16. 21. you may read there of a Scape Goat, on which Aaron laid both his hands, and confest over him all the sins of the people, and all their transgressions, laying them on the head of the live