A53669:334
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
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.
Only we must take this along with us, that dying for sins and Transgressions, being added unto dying for sinners or persons, maketh the substitution of one in the room and stead of ⟨p. 228⟩another, more evident, than when the dying of one for another only, is mentioned. For whereas all Predicates are regulated by their subjects, and it is ridiculous to say, that one dyeth in the stead of sins, the meaning can be no other, but the bearing or answering of the sins of the sinner, in whose stead any one dyeth. And this is in the Scripture declared to be the sense of that Expression, as we shall see afterwards. Let us therefore consider some Instances.
John 11. 50. The words of Caiaphas Counsel are, [Greek or Hebrew]. It is expedient for us, that one man should dye for the people, and that the whole Nation perish not: which is expressed again, Chap. 18. 14. [Greek or Hebrew], perish for the people. Caiaphas feared, that if Christ were spared, the people would be destroyed by the Romans. The way to free them, he thought was by the destruction of Christ; ⟨p. 229⟩him therefore he devoted to death, in lieu of the People. As He Unum pro multis dabitur Caput. One head shall be given for many. Not unlike the Speech of Otho the Emperor in Xiphilin, when he slew himself to preserve his Army; For when they would have persuaded him to renew the war after the defeat of some of his Forces, and offered to lay down their lives to secure him; he replied, that he would not; adding this Reason, [Greek or Hebrew]. It is far better, and more just that one should perish or dye for all; than that many should perish for one; that is, One in the stead of many, that they may go free; or as another speaks; [Greek or Hebrew]. Eurip. Let one be given up to dye in the stead of all.
John 11. 50. The words of Caiaphas Counsel are, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. It is expedient for us, that one man should dye for the people, and that the whole Nation perish not: which is expressed again, Chap. 18. 14. , perish for the people. Caiaphas feared, that if Christ were spared, the people would be destroyed by the Romans. The way to free them, he thought was by the destruction of Christ;