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

Part II. hy C^rijlt paj/tve Ohibience Imputed. i^^
palfive a(5)ion was not the formal caufc of his oblation. But I wil yet
a little
further ihew you the infufficiency of your argument by a
like inftance: IjaUh faich, rW b) hisfiripes we are healed: from
hence I will draw this argument.
Ifthe very ftripes of Icfus Chrift do heal us, thrn it is an needlefs
thing to ad any thing clfc to them as the matter ofour rightcouf^
ncs; for whatfocvcr doth heal ourf^ub, muft needs accompli Ih
all righteoufhei.
But the rtripes ofChrirt do heal u,//"- 55- ^- Therefore &c.
And from this confequcnce another confcqucnce doth follow
itcloleattheheelijnamelythis, if his ftripes do heal us, then his
death and oblation wasneedleG.
The like argument miy be drawn from the wooden crofs
whereon Chrift fuffned as a malefactor • Taul faith, that Chrifi
hathreconcilcdnsto^odbjfhii crofs : Eph.i. i($. therefor* nothing
elfe is the matter of our reconciliation but the wooden
on which Chrift was crucified.
He placeth the matter ( I
crois
(iippofe he m^ans the FotmJ of
a finners righteoufnes in Chrifts palTivc obedience imputed to
finncrs as their obedience for their juftifkarion, if he had but placed
it in the Fathers atonement, then he might better hare framed
his argument thus ; if the Fathers atonement doth denfe us from
all fin, then it is a needlefs thingtoadany thingelfetoitastho
formal caufe of our righteoufnes* for whatfoever doth clcnfe us
from all fin, muft needs accomplifti our full righteoufnes. He
might as wcl attribute our jmtification to the refurredion of Chrift
as to his death, for the Apoftle faith that Cbrifl djedfir our fins
aadrofe again for our jufiifcatitn but the ApOllle muft not :
fo be
undcrftood as
if he applyed two diftindlblcflings unto this twofold
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