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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
Q. 5. How then could they be redeemed that died before?
A. Though Christ's Blood was actually shed after the Old-Testament believers died; yet the virtue of Christ's Death extends to them, as well as us. Heb. 11.39, 40. And these all having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise, God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
Q. 6. Why would not God deliver us without such a Redeemer?
A Because it was not so much for the honour of his Justice. Rom. •.25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.
A Because it was not so much for the honour of his Justice. Rom. .25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Iesus.