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The application of redemption
The application of redemption by the effectual work of the word, and spirit of Christ, for the bringing home of lost sinners to God ... by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ...
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
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.
1 For as the first Adam was a common person and head of the first Covenant, and did covenant with God for himself and his, so that what he performed or failed in, they were all subject unto the same condition, and should in the same manner partake thereof: So the Lord Christ the second Adam, he is the head of the second Covenant of Grace, and therefore engaged ⟨p. 16⟩himself unto God the Father, as a common pledge for himself and his posterity that shall come of […]. 2 What the Lord Christ […] and performed that the Law exacted, and the Father required of him even when he endured the direful indignation of God the Father, and bore the fierceness of his fury seizing upon him: But the Father could neither in Equity exact these punishments, or in Justice […] them upon him for any desert of his own, for any thing he had that was evil, or any thing he did commit which […] contrary to his righteous Will, and holy Rule of the Law: Being wholly […] from all sin, he should be freed from all plagues and death, which is the […] of sin: where there is no […], no sorrow, no […] can be: His punishments which he endured, and God exacted (for there was nothing done, but according 1to his counsel) were for sin, therefore for […] sins imputed to him, therefore he was surety in […] room, therefore if he suffered for all, he had the […] of all imputed, and so was surety in the place or all. 3 Lastly, The necessity of this consequence […] appears: For whom the Lord Christ is not […] for them there is no salvation to be expected: for […] it be conceived that our Saviour should willingly endure2 such torments, though never required of God (which is false, for he had a command to lay down his life) or, that he should have done it merely of his own pleasure, not undertaking for any, not tendering of it in any mans name or stead; he could require nothing at the hands of God the Father, and God the Father might in Justice deny him or any other any recompense; For if a man will freely give so much money out of his own liberal […], though it countervail a debt due unto me, yet being tendered in no mans name, I am not bound to cancel any mans bond, or remit his debt: the Answer is, It was not paid for ⟨p. 17⟩[…]. It's then clear, if Christ died for all the wicked, […] he suffered and died as a Surety in their room and […].