Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

EXPLICATION.

That Christ did not fulfil the conditions of the new Covenant for us: I have proved already: That he hath not satisfied for its violation, I think to the considerate will need no proof: If you think otherwise, consider, 1. Christ is said to be made under the Law, & to have born the curse of the Law, & to have freed us from the curse of it, but no where is this affirmed of him in respect of the Gospel. 2. There be terms by him propounded upon which men must partake of the benefits of his Satisfaction; but these terms are only conditions of the new Covenant, therefore he never satisfied for the non-performance of those ⟨p. 105⟩conditions. 3. If he did, upon what conditions is that satisfaction enjoyed by us? 4. But the Question is out of doubt, because that every man that performeth not the Gospel-conditions, doth bear the punishment himself in eternal fire, and therefore Christ did not bear it: So that as it was not so grievous a death which was threatened in the first Covenant, as that is which is threatened in the second; so it was not so grievous a kind of death which Christ did bear, as that is which final unbelievers shall bear, (except as •he accumulation of sins of so many might increase it,) Therefore when we say, That Christ suffered in his Soul the pains of hell, or that which is equal; we must not mean the pains which is threatened in the Gospel, and the damned unbelievers must endure; but only of that death which the Law of Works did threaten. Woe therefore to the rebellious unbelieving world, that must bear this second death themselves: For of how much soever punishment shall they be thought worthy, who tread under foot the blood of the Covenant? Heb. 10. 29.