8. What could the powerful influences of God Creator separated from Christ the treasure-house of love and mercy do to us? and if Omnipotency were separated from the ⟨p. 61⟩promises of the Gospel, could it save us, in the Lord's way? through the blood of Christ; for power in God cannot (to speak so) save men, but by the Name of Jesus Christ, the only saving Name under Heaven, Acts 4. 12. nor can Omnipotency work a redemption now in this Gospel-dispensation, but that which is by blood, Ephes. 1. 7. Col. 1. 13. And that which is to declare the righteousness of God for the remission of sins. Power acts by way of complete satisfaction, as the exceeding greatness of God's power to us-ward who believe, is of the same size with the mighty power which raised Christ from the dead, and set him on the right-hand of God in heavenly places, Ephes. 1. 14, 20. The power of translating a sinner from Satan's Kingdom to the Kingdom of the Son of his love works as acted (as it were) and set on work to act righteously to translate no man, but the person for whom a ransom of blood is given to justice, as the Princes right power is only for the good of free and legal subjects, Col. 1. 11, 12, 13. and that all power in Heaven and Earth to save, Matth. 28. 18. John 17. 2. Matth. 11. 27. and that Kingly and Royal power to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins, Acts 5. 31. to forgive sins, Matth. 9. 6. to raise and quicken the dead, John 5. 26, 28, 29. is a power (in a way) purchased by the blood of atonement, Rom. 14. 9. For to this end Christ both dyed and rose, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. And by the way, its a righteous power over all flesh and in Heaven and Earth, though he died not for all flesh, and for all the Angels in Heaven, and all the men on Earth; it were strange to say Christ died for the reprobate, and not for their sins and final unbelief and rejecting of Christ, to obtain a power to pardon some of their sins, and not all, and to give them repentance from some dead works, and not from all dead works; and to purge them from some, but not from all their sins.
8. What could the powerful influences of God Creator separated from Christ the treasure-house of love and mercy doe to us? and if Omnipotency were separated from the ⟨p. 61⟩promises of the Gospel, could it save us, in the Lord's way? through the bloud of Christ; for power in God cannot (to speak so) save men, but by the Name of Jesus Christ, the only saving Name under Heaven, Acts 4. 12. nor can Omnipotency work a redemption now in this Gospel-dispensation, but that which is by bloud, Ephes. 1. 7. Col. 1. 13. And that which is to declare the righteousness of God for the remission of sins. Power acts by way of compleat satisfaction, as the exceeding greatness of God's power to us-ward who believe, is of the same size with the mighty power which raised Christ from the dead, and set him on the right-hand of God in heavenly places, Ephes. 1. 14, 20. The power of translating a sinner from Satans Kingdome to the Kingdom of the Son of his love works as acted (as it were) and set on work to act righteously to translate no man, but the person for whom a ransome of bloud is given to justice, as the Princes right power is only for the good of free and legal subjects, Col. 1. 11, 12, 13. and that all power in Heaven and Earth to save, Matth. 28. 18. John 17. 2. Matth. 11. 27. and that Kingly and Royal power to give repetance to Israel and forgiveness of sins, Acts 5. 31. to forgive sins, Matth. 9. 6. to raise and quicken the dead, John 5. 26, 28, 29. is a power (in a way) purchased by the bloud of attonement, Rom. 14. 9. For to this end Christ both dyed and rose, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. And by the way, its a righteous power over all flesh and in Heaven and Earth, though he died not for all flesh, and for all the Angels in Heaven, and all the men on Earth; it were strange to say Christ died for the reprobate, and not for their sins and final unbelief and rejecting of Christ, to obtain a power to pardon some of their sins, and not all, and to give them repentance from some dead works, and not from all dead works; and to purge them from some, but not from all their sins.
