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Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day…
Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day of judgment, from 2 Cor. 5. 10, 2. The danger of slighting Christ and his Gospel, from Matth. 22. 5 / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Jonas Luntley, 1696
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.
II. For the second Thing, who shall be the Judg; I answer, The Judg is God himself by Jesus Christ.
1. Principally, God as Creator.
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 Man's Fall, or the Redemption by Christ, but by the latter hath a new farther 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 Judgment to the Son, who hath procured this Right by the redeeming of fallen Man, Joh. 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 Man's Fall, or the Redemption by Christ, but by the latter hath a new farther 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 Judgment to the Son, who hath procured this Right by the redeeming of fallen Man, Joh. 5. 22. But as the Son only doth it in the nearest Sense, so the Father as Creator doth it remotely and principally.