The book of nature translated and epitomiz'd. By George Sikes.

SECTION. III.

Redemption.

AS to the recovery, redemption, and salvation of man, this we may take notice of in gene∣rall, that none but God himself could make satis∣faction to his own infinite justice for the sins of men. And none is obliged to give satisfaction, but man. He then, that perform's it, must needs be both God and man, united in one person. The natural and most intimate marriage-union of hu∣mane nature with the divine, in Christ's person, did render it so valuable, in the vertue and dignity of its husband, that the laying down of the life

thereof, was a satisfaction to divine justice for the sins of men, infinitely beyond what the voluntary surrender of life, by al creatures in their full puri∣ty, would have amounted unto. Such a man as was also God, could and did by the death of his manhood, overcome him that had the power of death, the devil; Heb. 2. 14. And having spoiled those princi∣palities and powers of darkness, the devil and his an∣gels, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it; Col. 2. 15. He will also cause his follo∣wers from among men, to triumph over them al∣so; to trample them under their feet, as Josua or Iesus (Act. 7. 45. Heb. 4. 8.) the type of Christ, caused the captains of the men of war, to put their feet upon the necks of the five Kings. Jos. 10, 23. 24. He does, by regeneration, put a spirit into them, grea∣ter then he that's in the world, the devil; 1 Jo. 4. 4. a spirit, which that wicked one cannot touch, deprave, corrupt, or assimilate unto himself; a spirit, that cannot touch or put forth its hand unto sin. He, or that which is born of God, sinneth not, nor can sin. 1 Jo. 3. 9.