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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.
§. 9. First, Christ did not fulfil the Law of Innocency in our several persons; He did not all those things materially that Adam was obliged to do; nor which most of us are obliged to do. We did not reputatively fulfil that Law by him, so as that his Perfection is taken as ours, in Habit and in Act.
§. 9. First, Christ did not fulfill the Law of Innocency in our several persons; He did not all those things materially that Adam was obliged to do; nor which most of us are obliged to do. We did not reputatively fulfill that Law by him, so as that his Perfection is taken as ours, in Habit and in Act.
§. 10. Secondly, Christ did not fulfil the Law of Moses in the person of all them that were never bound themselves to fulfil it; so as that they are reputed Fulfillers of it in and by Christ: For since his Ascension it is abrogated even to the Jews themselves, and now bindeth none in the World (as Mosaical.)
§. 10. Secondly, Christ did not fulfill the Law of Moses in the person of all them that were never bound themselves to fulfill it; so as that they are reputed Fulfillers of it in and by Christ: For since his Ascension it is abrogated even to the Iews themselves, and now bindeth none in the World (as Mosaical.)
§. 11. Thirdly, Christ did not work Miracles, rise, ascend, intercede, reign, teach, give Laws, and Ministers, and Grace, in the Person of every or any other, but only in his own Person as the great Mediator and Saviour of Man.