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A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…
A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the mediator to believers, and his direful wrath against impenitent sinners containing the substance of near forty sermons upon several subjects / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by the author, 1694
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.
6. But why is it said by the Holy Ghost, But when the fullness of Time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under 1the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law? &c. Had he not stood in our Law-place, why is it thus expressed? Certainly God saw it necessary to substitute him, and to accept of him in our stead; and therefore he was made under the Law, i. e. he was ⟨p. 239⟩obliged to keep the Law perfectly for us, God requiring that of us in order to Justification, which we being fallen, were not able to do, therefore he did it for us, and in our Nature; being made of a Woman, he took our Nature upon him, and suffered Death, making a full and complete Satisfaction for our Breach thereof; whose Sufferings and Obedience, upon the account of his being God as well as Man, had an infinite Worth and Merit in them. And if this which the Apostle saith in this place, doth not prove that he suffered in our room, I must confess I know nothing of this great Gospel-Mystery.
6. But why is it said by the Holy Ghost, But when the fulness of Time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under 1the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law? &c. Had he not stood in our Law-place, why is it thus expressed? Certainly God saw it necessary to substitute him, and to accept of him in our stead; and therefore he was made under the Law, i. e. he was ⟨p. 239⟩obliged to keep the Law perfectly for us, God requiring that of us in order to Justification, which we being fallen, were not able to do, therefore he did it for us, and in our Nature; being made of a Woman, he took our Nature upon him, and suffered Death, making a full and compleat Satisfaction for our Breach thereof; whose Sufferings and Obedience, upon the account of his being God as well as Man, had an infinite Worth and Merit in them. And if this which the Apostle saith in this place, doth not prove that he suffered in our room, I must confess I know nothing of this great Gospel-Mystery.
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