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…

Yet I do not positively conclude, that the body should not have risen again; but I find no intimation of it revealed in the Scripture; but that the sentence should have been immediately executed to the full, or that any such thing is concluded in the words of the threat In the day thou eatest thou shalt die the death. I do not think; for that would have prevented both the being, the sin, and the suffering of his posterity; and consequently Christ did not save any one in the world from sin or suffering but Adam and Eve, which seems to me a hard saying (though I know much may be said for it.)

Yet I do not positively conclude, that the body should not have risen againe; but I finde no intimation of it revealed in the Scripture; but that the sentence should have been immediately executed to the full, or that any such thing is concluded in the words of the threat In the day thou eatest thou shalt die the death. I doe not thinke; for that would have prevented both the being, the sinne, and the suffering of his posterity; and consequently Christ did not save any one in the world from sinne or suffering but Adam and Eve, which seems to me a hard saying (though I know much may be said for it.)

Thus we see in part the first Question resolved; what death it was that the Law did threaten? Now let us see, whether this were the same that Christ did suffer? And if we take the threatening in its full extent, as it expresseth not only the penalty, but also its proper subject and its circumstances, then it is undeniable ⟨p. 23⟩that Christ did not suffer the same that was threatened; For the Law threatened the death of the offender, but Christ was not the offender; Adam should have suffered for ever, but so did not Christ; Adam did die spiritually, by being forsaken of God, in regard of holiness as well as in regard of comfort, and so deprived at least of the chief part of his Image; so was not Christ.

Thus we see in part the first Question resolved; what death it was that the Law did threaten? Now let us see, whether this were the same that Christ did suffer? And if we take the threatning in its full extent, as it expresseth not only the penalty, but also its proper subject and its circumstances, then it is undenyable