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

7 2 ^^^ dMeritoriout Price if ear Part L
but he dyed alfb as a Mediator by his o.n Mediatorial power ;
th. Jews account he Jyed aw malcfador only,
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but in Gods accc
uiiT he dyed as a Mciiaror only ; In the Jews account he dyed a
padivedcathasamakfact r, byihepnver of man, but in Gods
acc« un: hcdycvi by thcadivc power of his own God- head, even
by the jo)nc concurrence of both his Natures In eh*: Jews account
he dyed a common curfed death, as the cthu- maltudors did thac
werecrucitied with him, but in 6od> account he dyed afiipernaiurai
death, even by che p )vver of his own God-head In the
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Jews account his death was vik and bafc, but in Gods account it
was the hi^: hell degree ot obedience that the Mediator could perform
for mans Redemption ;
ana therefore it was accepted ofGod
as a Mediiorial Sacririce of Atunemenr, and as the meritorious
procuring caule of Gods Atoicmrnt to all the Eled, for their full
Rctr .rption, Juftificario'.i, o-c. Thisaclof Chrillwas nocorrupmlethini',
but it wa^ .in ercrlivin^; ad of Mediatorial obedience,
it was no legal obedience, nor was it any humane ad of
obedience, as ail legal obedience mufl be ; but it was a fuper-naairal
ad ot obedience, it t\*as no Icfs than a Mediatorial oblation; and
therefore it was the mericorious procuring caufe of our Redemption
from the Cur[e of the Law, even at that very fa-ne time when
Chi \\ wa- made a Curfc lor us, by Hanging as a Malefad or upon a
Tree. The Jc^vs made no other account but that they had put
Chriii to death (by thcfe Torments which the Roman Souldicrs
d5d inflid upon him j as a malefaclor; but yet no: uithftanding
they were ^veady deceived, for he flicd his own bloud ; I mean,
he did feparate his own foi:! from his own body by !
power ; and thcrcf >rc as fuon as the juR appointed hour was come
wherein God had appointed him to make his own oblati.on. He
is own adivc
did but fay, lather. Into thj hu^di J comme :d mj Spirit, and at
that very in'L'nt he yeild.d up lu> (bul into the hands of God, as
a Mediatorial SacriHce for our Rt Jemp.ion from the Cuife of the
Law.
Therefore the Tree on which Chrift wa> crucified as a >falcfador,
cannot be the Altar ;
nei'Jic: were th: Ilom.in ScuIJierstlie
PrieiU by w horn this Mediatorial S.ici ilice ua^ olieicd up to G )d
;
But it was his ^wn Gv d-head tha: wasthe Pri^fl, ajidhisowii
God-head was the Altar by wi.idi he t fTced upl ; Huil to God as
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