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The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…
The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By Edward Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esquire
London : printed, and are to be sold by Thomas Shelmerdine, at the sign of the Rose-Tree in Little-Britain, 1695
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.
3. It is a Price sufficient for both the former. There is a double Sufficiency, Sufficientia nuda, and Sufficientia ordinata; the first consists in the intrinsical value of the thing, the thing in value transcending or at least equalizing the thing to be redeemed; the second consists in the Will of the Payer and Receiver, the one intentionally paying and the other intentionally accepting that thing as a Price of Redemption: the first is that radical Sufficiency whereby the thing may possibly become a Price; the second is that formal Sufficiency whereby the thing doth actually become a Price. Let the thing be in it self of never so vast a value, the former without the latter doth not constitute it a Price. Now the glorious price of our Redemption hath both these Sufficiencies in it.
3. It is a Price sufficient for both the former. There is a double Sufficiency, Sufficientia nuda, and Sufficientia ordinata; the first consists in the intrinsecal value of the thing, the thing in value transcending or at least equalizing the thing to be redeemed; the second consists in the Will of the Payer and Receiver, the one intentionally paying and the other intentionally accepting that thing as a Price of Redemption: the first is that radical Sufficiency whereby the thing may possibly become a Price; the second is that formal Sufficiency whereby the thing doth actually become a Price. Let the thing be in it self of never so vast a value, the former without the latter doth not constitute it a Price. Now the glorious price of our Redemption hath both these Sufficiencies in it.
1. It hath Sufficientiam nudam; the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ ⟨p. 271⟩have intrinsical value enough to equalize, nay infinitely superexcede all our Debts, and over and besides to purchase three Worlds for us; and the reason is because his Deity poured out a kind of Infinity into his Doings and Sufferings. The Righteousness which he fulfilled was the righteousness of God,