A26864:564
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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§. 58.
Mr. Bl. Neither can I assent to that speech, To say that Adam should have gone quick to Hell, if Christ had not been promised, or sin pardoned, is to contradict the Scriptures that make death temporal the wages of Sin. It were I confess to presume above Scripture, but I cannot see it a contradiction of Scripture. A burning Fever, Consumption, Leprosy, Pestilence, &c. are in Scripture made the wages of sin. Yet many go to hell through those diseases, &c.
Mr. Bl. NEither can I assent to that speech, To say that Adam should have gon quick to Hell, if Christ had not been promised, or sin pardoned, is to contradict the Scriptures that make death temporal the wages of Sin. It were I confess to presume above Scripture, but I cannot see it a contradiction of Scripture. A burning Feaver, Consumption, Leprosie, Pestilence, &c. are in Scripture made the wages of sin. Yet many go to hell through those diseases, &c.
§. 58.
R. B. I Willingly leave every man to his own judgement in this: But I think it most probable, that the separation of Soul and body was particularly intended in the threatening, Thou shalt dye the death. Reas. 1. Because this is it that is in prima signification called Death, and the miseries of Life, but Tropically, much more this or that particular misery: which answers your objection about sicknesses. 2. This is it that Christ was necessarily to suffer for us: and if it had not been necessary for man to dye thus, by the Commination of that Law, then it would not thence have been necessary for Christ to dye this Death. For it was not the following sentence (which you call Leges post lamas) which Christ came to satisfy or bear, but the curse of the Law.