Current Coin
I love this quote from Thomas Manton's sermon on Colossian 1:14;
We look upon the threatenings of the law as a vain scarecrow; therefore, for the terror and warning of sinners for the future, God wold not release his wrath, or release us from the power of sin and Satan, which was the consequent of it, without a price and valuable compensation. None was fit to give this ransom but Jesus Christ, who was God-man. He was man to undertake it in our name, and God to perform it in his own strength; a man that he might be made under the law, and humbled even to the death of the cross for our sakes; and all this was elevated beyond the worth of created actions and sufferings by the divine nature which was in him, which perfumed his humanity, and all done by it and in it. This put the stamp upon the metal, and made it current coin, imposed an infinite value upon his finite obedience and sufferings.
