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A commentary or exposition, upon the five first chapters of the Epistle to the…A commentarie or exposition, vpon the fiue first chapters of the Epistle to the…
A commentary or exposition, upon the five first chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians: penned by the godly, learned, and judicial divine, Mr. W. Perkins. Now published for the benefit of the Church, and continued with a supplement upon the sixth chapter, by Rafe Cudworth Bachelor of DivinityA commentarie or exposition, vpon the fiue first chapters of the Epistle to the Galatians: penned by the godly, learned, and iudiciall diuine, Mr. W. Perkins. Now published for the benefit of the Church, and continued with a supplement vpon the sixt chapter, by Rafe Cudworth Bachelour of Diuinitie
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1604Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1604
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The fourth point is, the Meritorious cause of our justification: and that is Christ. Here it may be demanded, what is that §30thing in Christ, by and for which, we are justified. I answer, the Obedience of Christ, Rom. 5. 19. And it stands in two things, his Passion in life and death, and his Fulfilling of the law joined therewith. For by faith the law is established, Rom. 3. 31. Christ was sent in the similitude of sinful flesh, that the rigour of the law §35might be fulfilled in us, Rom. 8. 4. and Christ is the perfection of the law for righteousness to all that believe, Rom. 10. 4. He that doth not fulfil all things contained in the Law, is accursed, Gal. 3. 10. Seeing therefore we cannot perform the things contained therein, by our selves, we must perform them in the person ⟨p. 119⟩of our Mediator: who hath satisfied for the threatenings of the law by his passion; and hath fulfilled the precepts of the law by his obedience, in all duties of love to God, and man. We owe to God a double debt. One is, that we are to fulfil the law every moment, from our first beginning, both in regard of purity of nature and purity of action. And this debt was laid §5upon us in the creation, and is exacted of us in the law of God. The second debt is, a satisfaction for the breach of the law. For this double debt, Christ is be become our Surety; and God accepts his obedience for us, it being a full satisfaction, according to the tenor of the law.
The fourth point is, the Meritorious cause of our iustification: and that is Christ. Here it may be demanded, what is that §30thing in Christ, by and for which, we are iustified. I answer, the Obedience of Christ,