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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…
Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousness, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kidderminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousnesse, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kederminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.
Hague: printed by Abraham Brown, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(2) The Will of the Father and the Son are one: The Son was a voluntary undertaker of this task: it was not imposed upon him by constraint: when he is said to come to do his Fathers Will (Heb. 10. 7. 9.) it doth also include his own Will. And where he is said to do it in obedience to the Father, as it is spoken of a voluntary obedience, so is it spoken of the execution of our Redemption, and in regard to the humane nature especially; and not of the undertaking by the divine Nature alone. Not only the consent of Christ did make it lawful that he should be punished being innocent, but also that special power which as he was God he had over his own life more then any creature hath: Joh. 10. 18. I have power [Greek or Hebrew] saith Christ, to lay down my Life.
(2) The Will of the Father and the Son are one: The Son was a voluntary undertaker of this task: it was not imposed upon him by constraint: when he is said to come to do his Fathers Will (Heb. 10. 7. 9.) it doth also include his own Will. And where he is said to do it in obedience to the Father, as it is spoken of a voluntary obedience, so is it spoken of the execution of our Redemption, and in regard to the humane nature especially; and not of the undertaking by the divine Nature alone. Not only the consent of Christ did make it lawfull that he should be punished being innocent, but also that speciall power which as he was God he had over his own life more then any creature hath: Ioh. 10. 18. I have power 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 saith Christ, to lay down my Life.
(3.) No mere creature was qualified for this work: even the Angels that are righteous do but their duty, and therefore cannot supererogate or merit for us. Neither were they able to bear and overcome the penalty.