5. LORD’S DAY.
16. Why must he be very man, and also perfectly righteous?
Because the justice of God requires that the same human nature, which hath sinned, should likewise make satisfaction for sin (Ex. 32;33); and one, who is himself a sinner, cannot satisfy for others (Heb. 7;26, 27).
Ex. 32;33.—Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.—1 Cor. 15;21.—Rom. 5;15.—Heb. 2;17.
Heb. 7;26, 27.—For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s.—1 Pet. 3;18.—Jer. 33;15.—Isa. 53;11.—2 Cor. 5;21.
17. Why must he in one person be also very God?
That he might, by the power of his Godhead, sustain, in his human nature, the burden of God’s wrath (2 Cor. 13;4); and might obtain for, and restore to us righteousness and life (1 John 4;9).
2 Cor. 13;4.—For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God.—Isa. 53;4.—Acts 2;24.—Isa. 9;6.
1 John 4;9.—In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.—Jer. 23;6.—Acts 20;28.—2 Cor. 5;21.—Rev. 19;15, 16.—2 Tim. 1;10.
*18. Who then is that mediator who is in one person both very God, and a real righteous man?
