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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 9
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Answ. All were not Impenitent, Unbelieving, Rebellious sinners; and therefore all are not unpardoned condemned sinners. All did not live after the flesh, and refuse to the last, to be converted, as you did. God will teach you better to difference between sinners and sinners.
The seven and thirtieth Excuse. But if Christ have satisfied for my sins, and dyed for me, then how can I justly suffer for the same sins? will God punish one sin twice?
Answ. 1. Christ suffered for man in the Nature of man; but ⟨p. 165⟩not in your person, nor you in him: It was not you that provided the price, but God himself; Christ was not mans Delegate in satisfying, and therefore received not his Instructions from us, nor did it on our terms, but his own. It was not the same thing which the Law threatened, that Christ underwent: for that was the Damnation of the sinner himself: and not the suffering of another for him, it cannot therefore be yours, but on Christs own terms. He dyed for thy sin, but with this intent, that for all that, if thou Refuse him, thou shalt dye thy self. It is therefore no wrong to thee to dye, for it was not thou that dyedst before: And Christ will take it for no wrong to him: For he will Judge thee to that Death. It is for refusing a Christ that dyed for thee, that thou must perish for ever.
Answ. 1. Christ suffered for man in the Nature of man; but ⟨p. 165⟩not in your person, nor you in him: It was not you that provided the price, but God himself; Christ was not mans Delegate in satisfying, and therefore received not his Instructions from us, nor did it on our terms, but his own. It was not the same thing which the Law threatned, that Christ underwent: for that was the Damnation of the sinner himself: and not the suffering of another for him, it cannot therefore be yours, but on Christs own terms. He dyed for thy sin, but with this intent, that for all that, if thou Refuse him, thou shalt dye thy self. It is therefore no wrong to thee to dye, for it was not thou that dyedst before: And Christ will take it for no wrong to him: For he will Judge thee to that Death. It is for refusing a Christ that dyed for thee, that thou must perish for ever.