Moreover, what he did and suffered, is styled a _ransom_, or price of redemption; and accordingly they, who were concerned therein, are said to be _bought with a price_, 1 Cor. vi. 20. and he saith, concerning himself, that _he came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many_, Matt. xx. 28. We read, in scripture, of a person’s paying a sum of money, as a _ransom for his life_, when it was forfeited, by his having been the culpable occasion of the death of another, Exod. xxi. 29, 30. and if such a consideration, when exacted as a price of redemption, be styled a ransom, a person’s laying down his life for another, may, with equal propriety, be so called. And this Christ is said, in many scriptures, to have done for us; upon which account he is styled our Redeemer. _Object._ We oftentimes read, in scripture, of redemption, where there is no price paid: Thus Israel is said to be _redeemed out of Egypt_, Deut. vii. 8. _and Babylon_, Micah iv. 10. And elsewhere, speaking of their deliverance out of captivity, God saith, _I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible_, Jer. xv. 21. whereas there was no price of redemption paid for their deliverance, either out of Egypt or Babylon, but it was by the immediate power of God. So Jacob, when he speaks of his deliverance from evil by the angel, styles this, his _redemption from all evil_, Gen. xlviii. 16. Now, though we allow that the angel he there speaks of, was our Lord Jesus Christ; yet the deliverance he wrought for Jacob was not by paying a price for him, but by exerting his divine power in order thereto. Moreover, others are called redeemers, who have been God’s ministers in delivering his people: Thus Moses is called a _ruler and deliverer by the hands of the angel, which appeared to him in the bush_, Acts vii. 35. so our translators rendered it[163]: but it ought to be rendered a _Redeemer_; therefore there may be redemption without satisfaction. _Answ._ This objection, how plausible soever it may seem to be, is not unanswerable; and the reply which may be given to it, is, that though deliverance from evil may be styled _redemption_, as it is oftentimes in scripture: the reason of its being so called, is, because of the reference which it has to that ransom that Christ was, after his incarnation, to pay for his people. This was the foundation of all that discriminating grace that God, in former ages, extended to his people, it was on the account hereof that he did not suffer them to perish in Egypt, or Babylon, and accordingly their deliverance is called a _redemption_, from thence; whereas, we never find that any deliverance, which God wrought for his enemies, who have no concern in Christ’s redemption, is so called.