What He has Done and is Doing

He came from heaven to earth to seek and to save lost sinners. He made Himself in all things like unto us, sin only excepted; excepted as to the inference of it, which was absolutely remote from Him, but not excepted as to the imputation of it, for “He bore our sins in His own body,” and submitted to have the iniquities of us all laid upon Him, that He, as our Surety, might become accountable and answerable for them, and as the Lamb of God, sacrificed for us, might take them away. Finding us obliged to the perfect obedience of the law required, but utterly unable to perform it, and so cut off from the remotest possibility of ever obtaining that life it was ordained to convey, He yielded, in our place, an obedience to it absolutely perfect and meritorious of eternal life, and gives this His righteousness to us, to become our title to heaven and eternal happiness. Finding us pressed down under an immense debt to divine justice, and the penalty of the law, He took it on Himself, paid it off, and discharges us by suffering for us. Thus He is the end of the law, and perfection of it, for righteousness, which we could never attain ourselves, but do now in Him.