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Christ the universal peace-makerChrist the universall peace-maker
Christ the universal peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodwin, B.D.Christ the universall peace-maker: or, The reconciliation of all the people of God, notwithstanding all their differences, enmities. / By Tho: Goodvvin, B.D.
London: printed by J.G. for R. Dawlman, 1651
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And again as the sacrificing of the beast cut a sunder was reckoned the common joint Act of both parties in such ⟨p. 36⟩a case, and they were esteemed by God, and by one another, each to have an hand in the sacrificing of it, and as consenting to the Covenant and peace that was intended to be entered into and ratified by it: so here in this. And though we then personally existed not, yet all we being considered in Him, by God, (who gave us to Him;) and by Himself, that voluntarily sustained our persons, and He offering up Himself as a Sacrifice on our behalf, and for our behoof and in our names; Hence His Will in offering up Himself, was volunt as totius, the act and will of the whole body, whose persons He sustained; our wills were thereby involved in His will; His act was our act: and it may truly be said, that a Covenant of peace was then made afore God, BY US, and for us: for He was our Priest therein for us, as well as our Sacrifice.
And againe as the sacrificing of the beast cut a sunder was reckoned the common joynt Act of both parties in such ⟨p. 36⟩a case, and they were esteemed by God, and by one another, each to have an hand in the sacrificing of it, and as consenting to the Covenant and peace that was intended to be entred into and ratified by it: so here in this. And though we then personally existed not, yet all we being considered in Him, by God, (who gave us to Him;) and by Himselfe, that voluntarily sustained our persons, and He offering up Himselfe as a Sacrifice on our behalfe, and for our behoofe and in our names; Hence His Will in offring up Himselfe, was volunt as totius, the act and will of the whole body, whose persons He sustayned; our wills were thereby involved in His will; His act was our act: and it may truly be said, that a Covenant of peace was then made afore God, BY US, and for us: for He was our Priest therein for us, as well as our Sacrifice.
And hence in a further correspondency to the manner of those typical Sacrifices: Therein although the Priest only offered up the Sacrifice for the People, and in their name and stead, yet to show it was their act, they used to eat of it after, or of that which was offered up with it. The interpretation of which eating thereof, by the People, the Apostle gives us to be this,