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An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
Chapter 12 › Section 2: Of the Law of Mediation or Covenant with CHRIST.
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.
§. 5. Christ took the Nature of Man, but not strictly the Real or Reputative Person of any man, but himself, much less of every Man or every Believer: I mean, that his Person was not the natural Person of any other, nor esteemed of God so to be; nor yet was he the full and proper Representative or Civil Person of any man, much less of all men; that is, One that the Law allowed us to do and suffer by, so that in Law-sense his doing and suffering should be reputed ours; as a man payeth a Debt by his Servant or Substitute; which is morally or reputatively his Act and Deed, or accepted in the same sort and to all the same effects and purposes, as if he had paid it with his own hands. The person of the Mediator was not in Law-sense, nor God's account, nor Christ's undertaking the person of the Sinner himself.
§. 5. Christ took the Nature of Man, but not strictly the Real or Reputative Person of any man, but himself, much less of every Man or every Believer: I mean, that his Person was not the natural Person of any other, nor esteemed of God so to be; nor yet was he the full and proper Representative or Civil Person of any man, much less of all men; that is, One that the Law allowed us to do and suffer by, so that in Law-sence his doing and suffering should be reputed ours; as a man payeth a Debt by his Servant or Substitute; which is morally or reputatively his Act and Deed, or accepted in the same sort and to all the same effects and purposes, as if he had paid it with his own hands. The person of the Mediator was not in Law-sence, nor God's account, nor Christ's undertaking the person of the Sinner himself.
§. 6. Else Christ should have been in God's account a Sinner, and the greatest Sinner in the World, and hated as such by God above any other Sinner; which whoever shall affirm, shall speak presumptuously and blasphemously.
§▪ 7. Yea, else Christ should have been many millions of persons in Law-sense, and many millions of Sinners; which is not agreeable to God's Word.