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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
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.
47. The perfection of Christ's satisfaction consisteth not in its being in stead of All the sufferings due to all for whom be dyed, so that none should therefore be ever due to the persons themselves. For death, afflictions, and the want of Grace, and withholding of the Spirits further help, &c. must be suffered even by the Elect: But it consisteth in its full sufficiency to those Ends for which it was designed by the Father and the Son.
48. The very Nature and Reason of the satisfactoriness of Christ's ••• ferings, was not in Being the very same either in Kind or in Degree, which were due to all for whom he suffered: For they were not such: Of which more afterwards.
49. They could not be the same which was due by the Law: For the Law made it due to the Sinner himself. And another's suffering for him▪ fulfilleth not the Law (which never said, Either thou or another for the shalt dye) But only satisfied the Law-giver as he is above his own Law, and could dispense with it, his Justice being satisfied and saved. D•• alius solvit, aliud solvitur. 2. And sin it self (though not as sin) as •• before opened, was the greatest part of the Sinners punishment (To •• alienated from God, and not to love him and delight in him, but to be corrupted and deluded and tormented by concupiscence). 3. And the immediate unavoidable consequents resulting from sin it self, we•• punishments which Christ did never undergo. (As to be Hateful or •• pleasing to God, as contrary to his Holy nature; to be related as Criminal, to lose all Right to Gods favour and Kingdom, &c.) 4. And no of the further punishments which supposed real faultiness could fall Christ; as the torment of an accusing Conscience for rejecting and offending God, for casting away our own felicity, and running into hell, &c. the sense of Gods hatred of us as real Sinners. 5. Much less the de tions of the Spirit of Holiness, to be left without goodness, in a state of sin, and to hate God for his justice and holiness, which will be the damned's case. The blind zeal of them that think they wrong the sufferings of Christ, if they make them not thus of the sme ki with all that we deserved, doth lead them to the intolerable Blasph ming of our Saviour; which if understood, they would themselves abhor.