The next part of our Redemption was from the Bondage of Corruption, unto thed Liberty of Glory, which likewise is by Christ performed for us, which is a Deliverance from the Consequents of sin; for sin doth bind over unto punishment, even as the perfect obedience of the Law would bring a man unto Glory. Now the Punishments due unto sin are either Temporary or Eternal, consisting principally in the oppressions and distresses of Nature: for as Sin is the evil of our working, so Punishment is the evil of our being: and it includes not only bodily and spiritual death, but all thec inchoations and preparatory ⟨p. 131⟩dispositions thereunto, as in the soul doubtings, distractions, tremblings, and terrors of Conscience, hardness of heart, fearful expectation of the wrath that shall be revealed: in the body sickness, poverty, shame, infamy, which are so many earnests and petty payments of that full debt which will at last be measured out to all the wicked of the World.f Even as amongst the Romans their Prelusory fight with dull and blunt weapons were but introductions to their mortal and bloody games. And besides this Deliverance there is in the soulg peace and serenity, in the body a patient waiting for Redemption, and in the whole man the pledges of that eternal glory which shall be revealed; of all which the only meritorious cause is the Death of Christ. Thisa alone is it which hath overcome our death, even asb one heat cureth, one Flux of blood stoppeth another, and hathc caught Satan as it were by deceit, with a bait and a hook; this is it which hath taken away the denmity between God and man, reconciling us to the Father, and by thee prayer of that precious Blood hath obtained for us thef right of Children; this is it which took away the guilt of sin, andg cancelled the Bond that was in force against us, swallowing up the hCurse of the Law, and humbling Christ unto the form of a servant, that thereby we might be made free; this is it which removeth ⟨p. 132⟩all both temporal and eternal punishment from the faithful, it having been a perfect payment of our whole debt; for in as much as Christ himself said on the Cross, It is finished, we are to conclude, that the other work of Resurrection was not properly an essential part of Christs merit, but only a necessary consequent required to make the Passion applicable and valuable to the Church.
The next part of our Redemption was from the Bondage of Corruption, unto thed Liberty of Glory, which likewise is by Christ performed for us, which is a Deliverance from the Consequents of sinne; for sinne doth binde over unto punishment, even as the perfect obedience of the Law would bring a man unto Glory. Now the Punishments due unto sinne are either Temporary or Eternall, consisting principally in the oppressions and distresses of Nature: for as Sinne is the evill of our working, so Punishment is the evill of our being: and it includes not onely bodily and spirituall death, but all thec inchoations and preparatory ⟨p. 131⟩dispositions thereunto, as in the soule doubtings, distractions, tremblings, and terrours of Conscience, hardnesse of heart, fearefull expectation of the wrath that shall be revealed: in the body sicknesse, poverty, shame, infamy, which are so many earnests and petty payments of that full debt which will at last bee measured out to all the wicked of the World.f Even as amongst the Romans their Prelusory fight with dull and blunt weapons were but introductions to their mortall and bloudy games. And besides this Deliverance there is in the souleg peace and serenity, in the body a patient waiting for Redemption, and in the whole man the pledges of that eternall glory which shall be reveled; of all which the onely meritorious cause is the Death of Christ. Thisa alone is it which hath overcome our death, even asb one heate cureth, one Flux of blood stoppeth another, and hathc caught Satan as it were by deceit, with a baite and a hooke; this is it which hath taken away the denmity betweene God and man, reconciling us to the Father, and by thee prayer of that precious Blood hath obtained for us thef
- dRom. 8.
- cZe•man de Imag. Dei in Homine, cap. 8.
- fLips. Satur.
- gRom. 5. Rom. 8.
- aAug. de doctr. Christia l. 1. c. 14
- bTertul. cont. Gnost. cap. 5.
- cCypr. in Symb.
- dEphe. •. 16. 19 Col. 2. 14.
- eHeb.
- fJoh. 20. 17.
- gCol. 2. 14.
- hGal. 3. 13. Phil. 2. 7. Joh. 8. 36. 1 Joh. 1. 7.