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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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IV. SECTION. The second Branch, What Christ did by way of Representation of our persons: That phrase in one Body explained.
The second Branch of this first head is, What Christ did by way of Representation of our persons, and how that conduceth to this mutual Reconciliation of the Saints among themselves. This we have in that small additional which is found in the 16. verse, That he might reconcile both unto God [IN ONE BODY,] by the Cross having slain the enmity. The meaning whereof is this, that he did collect, and gather together in one Body all the people of God, that is, did sustain their persons, stood in their stead, as one common person in whom they were all met, representing them equally and alike unto God, and so reconciled them to God in one body.1 As you heard he bore their enmities in his flesh and so abolished them: so withal He bore their persons, considered as one collective body, and under that consideration reconciled them to God.
THe second Branch of this first head is, What Christ did by way of Representation of our persons, and how that conduceth to this mutuall Reconciliation of the Saints among themselves. This we have in that small additionall which is found in the 16. verse, That he might reconcile both unto God [IN ONE BODY,] by the Crosse having slayn the enmity. The meaning whereof is this, that he did collect, and gather together in one Body all the people of God, that is, did sustaine their persons, stood in their stead, as one common person in whom they were all met, representing them equally and alike unto God, and so reconciled them to God in one body.1 As you heard he bore their enmities in his flesh and so abolisht them: so withall He bore their persons, considered as one collective body, and under that consideration reconciled them to God.