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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.
191. And when they say that [It is no more inconvenient to say that Christ was perfect in our person, than that he satisfied in our person and we by him.] I answer, 1. Both are false and subvert the Gospel, as aforesaid. 2. But yet we may fitly say that Christ suffered in the person of a Sinner; but mark the sense. 1. Suffering as penal belongeth to a Sinner as such: But Satisfaction is an Effect of Christ's suffering, which resulteth not from the mere suffering, nor from the person of a Sinner: but from the Will and Covenant of God made to that excellent person who was God and perfect Man. So that it is not so aptly said, He satisfied, as it is that he suffered, in the person of a Sinner. 2. Note that it is not any other man's ⟨p. 77⟩person that we mean that Christ suffered in, but his own. And we mean that he took upon him the person of a Sinner himself▪ in as much as he consented to suffer for Sin. And so personating here is not meant becoming any other man's person in Law sense, so as that other legally suffered what he did; But it is only his own persons becoming a sufferer in the stead of Sinners for their Sins: As the Apostle saith, He was made sin for us, so he might as truly have said, He was made a sinner for us; that is, so far by Imputation, as that he undertook to suffer as Sinners suffer, and for their sins.
191. And when they say that [It is no more inconvenient to say that Christ was perfect in our person, than that he satisfied in our person and we by him.] I answer, 1. Both are false and subvert the Gospel, as aforesaid. 2. But yet we may fitly say that Christ suffered in the person of a Sinner; but mark the sence. 1. Suffering as penal belongeth to a Sinner as such: But Satisfaction is an Effect of Christ's suffering, which resulteth not from the meer suffering, nor from the person of a Sinner: but from the Will and Covenant of God made to that excellent person who was God and perfect Man. So that it is not so aptly said, He satisfyed, as it is that he suffered, in the person of a Sinner. 2. Note that it is not any other man's ⟨p. 77⟩person that we mean that Christ suffered in, but his own. And we mean that he took upon him the person of a Sinner himself▪ in as much as he consented to suffer for Sin. And so personating here is not meant becoming any other man's person in Law sense, so as that other legally suffered what he did; But it is only his own persons becoming a sufferer in the stead of Sinners for their Sins: As the Apostle saith, He was made sin for us, so he might as truly have said, He was made a sinner for us; that is, so far by Imputation, as that he undertook to suffer as Sinners suffer, and for their sins.