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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.
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 ⟨p. 23⟩that Christ did not suffer the same that was threatned; For the Law threatned the death of the offender, but Christ was not the offender; Adam should have suffered for ever, but so did not Christ; Adam did dy spiritually, by being forsaken of God, in regard of holinesse as well as in regard of comfort, and so deprived at least of the chief part of his Image; so was not Christ.
Yet it is disputable whether these two last were directly contained in the threatening, or not? whether the threatening were not fully executed in Adams death? And the eternity of it were not accidental, even a necessary consequent of Adams disability to overcome death and deliver himself, which God was not bound to do? And whether the loss of Gods Image were part of the death threatened, or rather the effect of our sin only, executed by our selves, and not by God? Many Divines say, that God did not take away his Image, but man thrust it away: So Capell of Temptations, pag. 8. &c. Though most judge otherwise, because the same power must annihilate that must create.