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The doctrine of the covenant of redemption. Wherein is laid the foundation of all…
The doctrine of the covenant of redemption. Wherein is laid the foundation of all our hopes and happiness. Briefly opened and improved. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines from Psalms]
Boston: printed by Benj. Harris over against the Old-Meeting-House, 1693
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.
2. Hence it is the Person of Christ alone that is the Party. It must be either Christ personal, or Christ Mystical: not the latter as is already declared. He was alone in this Undertaking. He only was to perform the work of Redemption, and had no Coadjutor, Isa. 63.3. Redemption-work is appropriated to him. As he was to have the whole honour of our deliverance paid unto him, so that none might share with him in the Glory of it, he took none into Partnership with him in the work, but took it wholly upon himself: nay there was none in Heaven or Earth to be found to Undertake in this Business besides him, and therefore he stood alone in it.
3. Christ merely considered as the Eternal Son of God, and the Second Person in the Blessed Trinity; and not as God and Man, by the Assumption of our Nature, is the other party in this Covenant. I know there are weighty Divines of another Persuasion, who labour by many arguments to prove that the Son of God, was looked upon as in our nature, or with respect to the Futurition of ⟨p. 26⟩his assuming it, in the Indenting of this Covenant: But I suppose that conception will overthrow the very notion of a Covenant in this matter. The present conclusion that hath now been laid down, will be apparent by these things.
3. Christ meerly considered as the Eternal Son of God, and the Second Person in the Blessed Trinity; and not as God and Man, by the Assumption of our Nature, is the other party in this Covenant. I know there are weighty Divines of another Perswasion, who labour by many arguments to prove that the Son of God, was looked upon as in our nature, or with respect to the Futurition of ⟨p. 26⟩his assuming it, in the Indenting of this Covenant: But I suppose that conception will overthrow the very notion of a Covenant in this matter. The present conclusion that hath now been laid down, will be apparent by these things.