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An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…
An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgess ...An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the second epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by A.M. for Abel Roper, 1661
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON THE First Chapter of… › Sermon 6
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Secondly, He is a spiritual Saviour, but not in a Socinian sense, as if 1he did only save us by example, and giving us a pattern of holiness, but not saving us by his blood, as a ransom and atonement made to Gods justice for us. The Scripture is clear, not only to inform us of being our Saviour; but in what manner; and indeed the manner how, viz. by becoming a curse for us, and suffering in our stead, as a Surety, doth wonderfully aggravate the love of Christ, and make it love unspeakable.
Secondly, He is a spiritual Saviour, but not in a Socinian sense, as if 1he did only save us by example, and giving us a patern of holiness, but not saving us by his blood, as a ransome and atonement made to Gods justice for us. The Scripture is clear, not only to inform us of being our Saviour; but in what manner; and indeed the manner how, viz. by becoming a curse for us, and suffering in our stead, as a Surety, doth wonderfully aggravate the love of Christ, and make it love unspeakable.
- 12. He is not a spiritual Saviour only by example.
Thirdly, He is not a Saviour in an Huberian sense, as if he did actually 1save all. For he saith, That as Adam did actually condemn all, so Christ did actually save all, that is, put them into a state of salvation, so that if they fall from that, and are condemned, it's a new wilful transgression of their own: but the Text saith, He shall save his people, not all from their sins.
Thirdly, He is not a Saviour in an Huberian sense, as if he did actually 1save all. For he saith, That as Adam did actually condemn all, so Christ did actually save all, that is, put them into a state of salvation, so that if they fall from that, and are condemned, it's a new wilfull transgression of their own: but the Text saith, He shall save his people, not all from their sins.