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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 2
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2. As also, God as Redeemer; the humane nature of Jesus Christ having a derived subordinate power. God lost not his right to his creature either by mans fall, or the Redemption by Christ, but by the latter hath a new and further right: but it is in and by Christ that God Judgeth: For as mere Creator of innocent man, God judgeth none, but hath committed all Judgement to the Son, who hath procured this right by the redeeming of fallen man, John 5.22. But as the Son only doth it in the nearest sense, so the Father as Creator doth it remotely and principally.
2. As also, God as Redeemer; the humane nature of Jesus Christ having a derived subordinate power. God lost not his right to his creature either by mans fall, or the Redemption by Christ, but by the latter hath a new and further right: but it is in and by Christ that God Judgeth: For as meer Creator of innocent man, God judgeth none, but hath committed all Judgement to the Son, who hath procured this right by the redeeming of fallen man, John 5.22. But as the Son only doth it in the neerest sense, so the Father as Creator doth it remotely and principally.
1. In that the power of the Son is derived from the Father, and so standeth in subordination to him as Fountain or Efficient.
2. In that the Judgement of the Son (as also his whole Mediatorship) to bring men to God their maker as their ultimate end, and recover them to him from whom they are fallen, and so as a means to that end, the Judgement of the son is subordinate to the Father.