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The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as…
The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as it affordeth both milk for babes, and strong meat for such as are at full age / by ... Nicholas Bifield ; ... now published ... by his son, Adoniram Bifield.The rule of faith, or, An exposition of the Apostles Creed so handled as it affordeth both milke for babes, and strong meat for such as are at full age / by ... Nicholas Bifield ; ... now published ... by his sonne, Adoniram Bifield.
London: printed by G.M. for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1626
THE CREED. › Article 4 › Dead.THE CREEDE. › Article 4 › Dead.
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. To satisfy the justice of God for our sins. The wages of sin is death, Rom. 6. 23. Christ therefore taking upon him the similitude of sinful flesh as our surety, God condemned sin in his flesh by inflicting death upon him, and so satisfied his justice. Object. But can the death of one man satisfy so as to be accepted for the death of many men? Sol. The death of one bare or mere man cannot, but the death of him that is the Son of God, both God and man, is of infinite price, and so an infinite satisfaction, Act. 20. 28.
1. To satisfie the iustice of God for our sinnes. The wages of sinne is death, Rom. 6. 23. Christ therefore taking vpon him the similitude of sinfull flesh as our surety, God condemned sinne in his flesh by inflicting death vpon him, and so satisfied his iustice. Obiect. But can the death of one man satisfie so as to be accepted for the death of many men? Sol. The death of one bare or meere man cannot, bot the death of him that is the Sonne of God, both God and man, is of infinite price, and so an infinite satisfaction, Act. 20. 28.
2. In respect of the truth of God: God had said, The day thou eatest thereof dying thou shale die, Gen. 2. 17. which presently fell upon Adam in respect of spiritual death, and in time invaded his body, and seized upon the bodies of his posterity. Now Christ coming in the first ⟨p. 416⟩Adams stead, must suffer what God had threatened, and bear that punishment he had appointed.