Object. 1. If Christ made a full satisfaction by bearing our sorrows and his Father's wrath, how then doth God love us freely?—how is mercy magnified? I answer briefly—The freeness of God's love or mercy doth not exclude the fulness of Christ's merit. You shall see the apostle joineth both together, God's mercy and Christ's merit: Rom. iii. 24, 'Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ.' Freely, in respect of us; we could contribute nothing of desert, nor nothing of satisfaction toward it. There can be no price paid by ourselves, nor by any for us. We could not satisfy for ourselves, nor merit a satisfier. And therefore there is a great deal of freeness of mercy held forth in it, in that God freely gave Christ for us.
Thomas Manton — A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 3 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), on Isa. 53:4, p. 269
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