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

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%^ The MeritOYioui VrUe of dur Parti.
By this rale ofjurtice the Son cannot dy eternally fir the fin of
his Father, Ez^ekj iS* 2o, 2i. /rr. 31 '^o.hnt thefather mufidj
eterndlljfor his #Ww fin : and therefore God cannot in jufticc impute
our lins to our innocent Savior,nor yet inflid the torments of
Hell upon him for our fins : if God fhould do Co, he (hoald make
himfelfas unjufl m his proceedings againft our innocent Savior, as
the wicked lews were when they imputed fin and inflided puni/hment
upon our innocent Savior, as if he had bin a finfiil male-
(3A0T ;
for they condemned him that rvas the holy one^ and thejuft,
und delivered a murderer, and fb they made Chrift a worle nulefador
then 'Barrabas.
Tradef! Ton fay that God cannot by the rule of his orvnjufiice
funijh an inocent for a guilty ferfon : and jet God di^ punijh many
thoufands of Davids inocent fubjeHs for Davidsy/^t iu numbrin^
the people.
Divinc.Thh cafe Is different from the formcr,for the former cafe
was propounded couching the eternal eftate ofmens fouls : and in
that cafe I faid that God cannot in jufiice puni(h an inocent foul
eternally for the Hns ofanother man: But that inftanceis touching
Cods dealing with mens bodies, In this cafe I grant that God may
by the rule of his own jufticc punifh the bodies of many inocent
for another mans fin, and the reafbn is plain, becaufe men in the
world, both eled and reprobates ate liable to Gods juftice for their
bodily death, Gen.^. 19. And therefore God may call them to
dy whenfoever he pleafcth thereupon fometimcs it .•
is his good
will and pleafure to let men live lohg,and fomctimes i: is his good
will and plcafiire to call for their lires upon occafion of fome provoking
fin or other in (bme other man, and then it is hi^ good
will and pleadire to punifh that provoking fin by the death of many
thoufands that had no hand in that fin ; and in this fcnfc God
coth often punifh the fin ofthe Father upon the children,
and the
fin of the Childrfn upon the father, and the fin of the King upon
Lis rubje(3s : as in the cafe of David : he alonefinned in numbring
the people : and thereupon, God roas pleafed to punifh his fin ^^ith
[he death ofmairy thoufands of his goodfubje^s, and yer God did [
no injunice to any man in (o doing, becaufe they were all indebted
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his juftice for their bodily death whcnfocrcr it picafcd him to
call for i:.
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