2. Next let us consider, how we are Gods ⟨p. 8⟩upon the Title of this purchase. By [God] here is meant both the Son, who being God, hath procured a right in us by his Redemption; and also the Father, who sent his Son, and redeemed us by him, and to whom it was that the Son redeemed us Rev. 5. 9. Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood. In one word, it is God as Redeemer, the manhood also of the second person included, that hath purchased this right. Here you must observe that God as Creator had a plenary Right of propriety and Government, on which he founded the Law of works that then was. This right he hath not lost: Our fall did lose our Right in him, but could not destroy his right in us. Because it destroyed our right, therefore the promissory part of that Law was immediately thereupon dissolved, or ceased through our incapacity (and therefore Divines say, that as a Covenant it ceased) but because it destroyed not Gods Right, therefore the preceptive, and penal parts of that Law do still remain. But how remain? In their being: but not alone, or without remedy. For the Son of God became a sacrifice in our stead; not that we might absolutely, immediately, or ipso facto, be fully delivered, or that any man should ab ipsa hostia from the very sacrifice as made, have a right to the great benefits of personal plenary Reconciliation ⟨p. 9⟩and Remission, and everlasting life; but that the necessity of perishing through the unsatisfiedness of justice for the alone offences against the Law of works being removed from mankind they might all be delivered up to him as Proprietary & Rector, that he might rule them as his redeemed ones, and make for them such new Laws of grace, for the conveyances of his benefits, as might demonstrate the wisdom and mercy of our Redeemer, and be most suitable to his ends. The world is now moral▪ dead in sin, though naturally alive. Christ hath redeemed them, but will cure them by the actual conveyance of the benefits of Redemption, or no at all He hath undertaken to this end, himself to be their Physician, to cure all that will come to him, and take him so to be, and trust him, and obey him in the Application of his Medicines. He hath erected an Hospital. his Church to this end; and commanded all to come into this Ark. Those that are far distant, he first commandeth to come nearer; and those that are near, he inviteth to come in.
2. Next let us consider, how we are Gods ⟨p. 8⟩upon the Title of this purchase. By [God] here is meant both the Son, who being God, hath procured a right in us by his Redemption; and also the Father, who sent his Son, and redeemed us by him, and to whom it was that the Son redeemed us Rev. 5. 9. Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood. In one word, it is God as Redeemer, the manhood also of the second person included, that hath purchased this right. Here you must observe that God as Creator had a plenary Right of propriety and Government, on which he founded the Law of works that then was. This right he hath not lost: Our fall did lose our Right in him, but could not destroy his right in us. Because it destroyed our right, therefore the promissory part of that Law was immediately thereupon dissolved, or ceased through our incapacity (and therefore Divines say, that as a Covenant it ceased) but because it destroyed not Gods Right, therefore the prec•ptive, and penall parts of that Law do still remain. But how remain? In their being: but not alone, or without remedy. For the Son of God became a sacrifice in our stead; not that we might absolutely, immediately, or ipso facto, be fully delivered, or that any man should ab ipsa hostia from the very sacrifice as made, have a right to the great benefits of personall plenary Reconciliation ⟨p. 9⟩and Remission, and everlasting life; but that the necessity of perishing through the unsatisfiedness of justice for the alone offences against the Law of works being removed from mankind they might all be delivered up to him as Proprietary & Rector, that he might rule them as his redeemed ones, and make for them such new Laws of grace, for the conveyances of his benefits, as might demonstrate the wisdom and mercy of our Redeemer, and be most suitable to his ends. The world is now morall▪ dead in sin, though naturally alive. Christ hath redeemed them, but will cure them by the actuall conveyance of the benefits of Redemption, or no at all He hath undertaken to this end, himself to be their Physitian, to cure all that will come to him, and take him so to be, and trust him, and obey him in the Application of his Medicines. He hath erected an Hospitall. his Church to this end; and commanded all to come into this Ark. Those that are far distant, he first commandeth to come nearer; and those that are neare, he inviteth to come in.
