A Golden Chain

Exception. This universal reconciliation is not in respect of man, but God himself, who, both made it for all, and offereth it to all. Ans. If Christ became once before God a reconciliation for all mens sins, yea and also satisfied for […] ⟨image 94⟩[…] ⟨image 95⟩⟨p. 169⟩them all, it must needs follow that before God all those sins must be quite blotted out of his remembrance. For the actual blotting out of sins, doth inseparably depend upon reconciliation for sins: and satisfaction doth infer by God, and that necessarily, the very real and general abolishment of the guilt and punishment of sin.

Exception. This vniuersall reconciliation is not in respect of man, but God himselfe, who, both made it for all, and offereth it to all. Ans. If Christ became once before God a reconciliation for all mens sinnes, yea and also satisfied for 〈…〉 ⟨image 94⟩〈…〉 ⟨image 95⟩⟨p. 169⟩them all, it must needes followe that before God al those sinnes must be quite blotted out of his remembrance. For the actuall blotting out of sinnes, doth inseparably depend vpon reconciliation for sinnes: and satisfaction doth infer by God, and that necessarily, the very reall and generall abolishment of the guilt and punishment of sinne.

Object. I. Christ took upon him mans nature: therefore he redeemed mans nature generally. Answer. I. It followeth not, except we would say that Christ redeemed his own humanity, which cannot be any ways possible. II. Every woman doth partake the humane nature of every man, yet is not every man each woman's husband, but hers alone, with whom by the covenant in matrimony, he is made one flesh: and in like sort Christ did by his incarnation ([Greek or Hebrew]) take also upon him mans nature, and that common to all Adams progeny, yet is he the husband of his Church alone, by another more peculiar conjunction, namely, the bond of the spirit and of faith. And by it the Church is become flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone.