William McEwen on the love of God displayed in the sacrifice of Christ our Isaac

[Reformed Covenanter]

... But as he was in a manner a dead man during all the three days that intervened betwixt the sentence being passed against him and the reversing of it by the heavenly voice, it may be truly said that “in a figure” he was received “from the dead” (Heb. 11:19). Exactly so, our true Isaac was received on the third day from the dead, not in a figure only. Like Isaac, He felt no harm, but, “O death, He was thy plague; O grave, He was thy destruction.” Like Isaac, He returned to His Father’s house from whence He came and became a Father of many nations, who are begotten again to a lively hope by His resurrection from the dead; for thus the prophet Isaiah foretells, with admirable plainness and propriety, “When thou [O heavenly Father] shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand” (Isa. 53:10).

Forbear, ye children of men, anxiously to inquire, “Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God?… shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” (Mic. 6:6–7). For lo, He has given His firstborn to atone for your transgression, and the Son of His love to expiate the sin of your souls by the sacrifice of Himself. “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” (Mic. 6:8). ...

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