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Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the late learned Mr. Richard Barter [sic] ; whereunto is added a short account of Special redemption, by the same author.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1694
OF Universal Redemption. › Chapter 2: Some further necessary Distinction.
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.
7, We must distinguish betwixt suffering ex obligatione Legis & merito peccati, as we should have done if we had suffered our selves; and suffering ex obligatione solius sponsionis propriae; as Christ did without any Merit or Legal obligation; His own Sponsion being instead of both, and our Sin and Obligation being but the Occasion, or Loco Causae meritoriae & Obligatoriae. These Distinctions are chiefly to show what Christ did, which must be known before we can clearly discern for whom: The use will be after manifest. More ⟨p. 26⟩Distinctions are necessary, especially about his Obedience or Fulfilling the Preceptive part of the Law, (and not the commination) and that in his own person, as obligatory to himself, (for the Precept obliged him, though the threatening did not) and not in Personâ nostrâ or as obliging us: But I will proceed to those Distinctions which concern the Effects.
7, We must distinguish betwixt suffering ex obligatione Legis & merito peccati, as we should have done if we had suffered our selves; and suffering ex obligatione solius sponsionis propriae; as Christ did without any Merit or Legal obligation; His own Sponsion being instead of both, and our Sin and Obligation being but the Occasion, or Loco Causae meritoriae & Obligatoriae. These Distinctions are chiefly to shew what Christ did, which must be known before we can clearly discern for whom: The use will be after manifest. More ⟨p. 26⟩Distinctions are necessary, especially about his Obedience or Fulfilling the Preceptive part of the Law, (and not the commination) and that in his own person, as obligatory to himself, (for the Precept obliged him, though the threatning did not) and not in Personâ nostrâ or as obliging us: But I will proceed to those Distinctions which concern the Effects.
8. We must further distinguish between Christs Death as satisfactory to Justice, and as a Price meritorious to purchase further Benefits: For I shall manifest that the former is the immediate next Effect; and that it could not be Purchasing, meritorious, no nor accepted, but as it is first satisfactory; and that Christ did not Merit or Purchase further Benefits Loco nostro, so far as he did suffer Loco nostro.