The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

70 The Meritorlom Trice of iur Parti.
bodies of the chiefel^ of them were (lain, and then their dead bodies
were hanged up to appeafe the Lords wrath : And Ach^n was
iiift Ironed to death, and afterwards his dead body was condemned
10 be burned, and all that he had. hfl). 7.2^.
Having thus opened the true nature of the Cui(e in T)eHt. 2 1.
let us now examine in what fenfj the Apollle doth apply it to the
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death of our Savior ^ for I confcfs there is fome likenefs, and yet I
(ay al(b, that there is a great deal of dilierence.
Fir(], Every kindof dea:h ische curfeof GodforfinjCr^.j.iji.
Butdichkindof linners asarepuc to death by the Magilkate for
capital fins, are more eminently curled
than thofe that dy by (Ic^ne(s
• and therefore, the greater punifliment they fuffcr from tha
Magiftrate, the greater outwacd curfe they fuffcr.
Tradel. Igrant that thehnnfing upon a Tree in Mofes, •was bnt
an outward turfe^ hutjet it woi a type »f that Sternal turfe which
Chrijl mnf} /itjfer when he w.is hanged upon the Tree for our Redemption
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and ft much the Aptflle Paul dtth rjm at in Gal. 5.13.
^Divine, I think I have Mciently proved that God did not appoint
the hanging upon a Tree to be a typeof the Eternal Curie,
tor if it had bin appointed by God to be a type of the Eternal Cur/e,
then every one that is now hanged upon a Tree, fhould be eternally
cu::ed, and then divers godly Martyrs that were crucified as
Chrift was, are eternally curfed, and then the
eternally curfed.
penitent thief was
But if the circumflances of the Text be well marked, they will
tell you plainly that this hanging upon a Tree canno; be a Type
of the Eternal Curie : For
Hrrt, This Lav; oiMofes muft not be under{l