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

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part II. gtdiheFaxkerfatonemtttide/criled, jT-
grace and favor j
and in this fcnfc A/ofts pray'd thus td the Father,
0$tr iniquity dnd tfrfn, and take us for thine inheritance :
^4. J. If God did no more but acquit a finncr of the fauir
and fo IcaTc him, it could not make j man bleflird
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bu- Godi forghrencfs
doth make a man blcflTcd, P/. 5 2. i. therefore Ijis forgiventfi
is not only a bate acquittance ot the fault,but it dijth ai(b c «m.
prehend under it his receiving of finners mco tavor ; and yet I do
alio grant that his receiving ot finners into faror, muft be dillinguifticd
as another part ot Cods atonement, for clccrer light fake,
into the full nature of his atonement.
Thirdly, Thisaifomuft be remsmbrcd, that no othtr pcrfbit
in Trinity don forgive iTiw for'raily but God the Fath< r only,
iV^r/^ 2.7. Co/. 2,1 5. he f)t l>i tree grjccdiJ ordain the MeJiat or
a- the meritorious pn^cunng cauic of his fargive: »*rs ; and ihcte -4 •
foic i: is laid that he doth fcr^tve m aH %si^ fir.s 'or Chrifis Jlikf,
^/;il;.4.52.! mtjracs Chriflis laid to forgive fW; C»/. 3. 15. but ftil vvc
n>ut* uii«icrlland his forgivcncG t\jhc in a aiccuatoiial Wjy.anJnOv
formally.
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Ard according to Cods promife in the new Covenant,
his for-
j;iv.'ticlsi' of ihatnaiurc.that itdoth mak'-alii-ipcr p. rt, dly jiillor .
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for till pr 'mil' lunst' u , / Wi7/ h mercifUl to their
// rie^aaz/rr/j • Ff^. 8. i2.tr at is to fay, I will make them per-
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fv^iv rigKteoL.' by niy maci ul parilffti and foroivenef.
'I'r.e Ice ml ctTcd ( t i e far:.cr5 a oncmer.t procured by the Mediatfis
ficriiicsof atoncmenr(a ir wa< r\piHnf andprcmifed i.i the .t ^
lawt'jthiir iacr:f;cisofa-oncmenr J is Gods favorable acceptation \ ]
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in rccv iv .jii o r linnets into Ip^eial favor: Firll C7od ortiained ;
lArtit ojferin'p^ t'lat poor belicvin;.- liiircrs mioiht Hnd i'uv' rable accrt^-.!'
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