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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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The meritory cause, because Christ suffered for the things, which the sins of unjust men had deserved. The formal cause, because for our sins Christ was induced, as the form, as of divine imputation; as of that which by God was imputed; so of the suretyship undertaken by Christ, or that form which by Christ was undertaken, or accepted to be accounted his, when he underwent these sufferings. Lastly, also the final cause, because for this end set before him, or for this very purpose Christ suffered, that he might take away the sins of unjust men, and make unjust men to become just, and so might bring them to salvation.
The meritory cause, because Christ suffered for the things, which the sinnes of unjust men had deserved. The formal cause, because for our sinnes Christ was induced, as the form, as of divine imputation; as of that which by God was imputed; so of the suretiship undertaken by Christ, or that form which by Christ was undertaken, or accepted to be accounted his, when he underwent these sufferings. Lastly, also the final cause, because for this end set before him, or for this very purpose Christ suffered, that he might take away the sins of unjust men, and make unjust men to become just, and so might bring them to salvation.
Doct. 1. Christ the Lord suffered all these evils of punishment, which were due to us for our sins.
Doct. 1. Christ the Lord suffered all these evills of punishment, which were due to us for our sins.
This is not so to be understood, as if in kind and particularly he had undergone all the evils, but in value only, and generally; in the sum or upcast of all, and in that which was equivalent and equipollent to all; and so, he is said to have suffered all the evils of punishment.