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Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners
Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners by Richard Baxter.
London : To be sold by John Rothwell ..., 1656
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.
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 further right: but it is in and by Christ that God Judgeth: For as mere Creator of innocent mar, God ⟨p. 161⟩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 sen•e so the Father as Creator doth it remotely and principally.
2. As also, God as Redeemer; the humane nature of Iesus 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 further right: but it is in and by Christ that God Iudgeth: For as meer Creator of innocent mar, God ⟨p. 161⟩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 sen•e 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) is 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.