Samuel Drew, Scriptural and Philosophical Arguments, to Prove the Divinity of Christ, and the Necessity of His Atonement, 1st American ed. from the 3rd London ed. (Trenton, N.J.: Daniel Fenton, 1825), p. 22

As the law was given to human nature in its purity, from which its precepts required a fulfilment; so, when this nature transgressed, it was on human nature that justice had a claim, and from human nature that it demande…