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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
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THE Enemies of the glory of Christ and of his Cross, do take this for granted, That there ought to be such a conjunction between the guilty person and him that suffers for him, as that in him the guilty person may be said in some sense to undergo the punishment himself. But then they affirm on the other hand, That there was no such conjunction between Christ and sinners, none at all; but that he was a man, as they were men; and otherwise, that he was at the greatest distance from them all, as it is possible for one man to be from another, Socin. de Servat. lib. 3. cap. 3. The falseness of this latter Assertion, and the gross ignorance of the Scripture under a pretence of subtlety, in them that make it, will evidently appear in our ensuing Discourse.
THE Enemies of the glory of Christ and of his Cross, do take this for granted, That there ought to be such a conjunction between the guilty person and him that suffers for him, as that in him the guilty person may be said in some sense to undergo the punishment himself. But then they affirm on the other hand, That there was no such conjunction between Christ and sinners, none at all; but that he was a man, as they were men; and otherwise, that he was at the greatest distance from them all, as it is possible for one man to be from another, Socin. de Servat. lib. 3. cap. 3. The falseness of this latter Assertion, and the gross ignorance of the Scripture under a pretence of subtilty, in them that make it, will evidently appear in our ensuing Discourse.
THE Apostle tells us 1 Pet. 2. 24. That in his own self he bare our sins in his own body on the tree; and chap. 3. 18. That he suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us unto God. But this seems somewhat strange unto Reason; where is the Justice, where is the Equity, that the just should suffer for the unjust? Where is Divine Righteousness herein? For it was an act of God, The Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all, Isa. 53. 6. The Equity hereof, with the grounds of it, must be here a little enquired into.