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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.
§. 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.
§. 12. If any will use the word [PERSON] in a private, narrow and improper sense, and say, That [He who undertook in the person of a Mediator to obey and merit for our Justification, and to suffer in our stead to save us from deserved suffering, may therefore be called The Person of every one that he merited and suffered for, though I will not so presume to thrust Phrases on the Church which Scripture never used, when their obvious sense is pernicious, yet if that man will by Explication of the word PERSON (or REPRESENTATIVE) notify to the World, that he taketh it in a sound ⟨p. 124⟩sense, I will not quarrel about an unfit word, while Religion is safe.
§. 12. If any will use the word [PERSON] in a private, narrow and improper sence, and say, That [He who undertook in the person of a Mediator to obey and merit for our Iustification, and to suffer in our stead to save us from deserved suffering, may therefore be called The Person of every one that he merited and suffered for, though I will not so presume to thrust Phrases on the Church which Scripture never used, when their obvious sence is pernicious, yet if that man will by Explication of the word PERSON (or REPRESENTATIVE) notifie to the World, that he taketh it in a sound