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

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fuice doth ofccn deride us with great fcorn and difdain , for afcribingunco
Chrid fuch perturbations of foul as did arifc from the
fenfe of Gods wrath: and the Rhcmifts in their Annotations upon
ihe New Te(lamenc do the like in fevcrall places.
And yet they do alfo greatly mtfTc of the right
underftanding
of the meritorious price of our Redenpcion: For i.they joyn their
own merits with the merits of Chrift, as neccffary to
the purchafing
of their Redemption.
2.Theydomollfuperftitionny look atthe groflc fubftance of
Chrifts fle(h and blood, and at his bodily pains and (Iripcs which he
fuflFw-red from Satan and his inrtruments as a Malefadlor, as the meritorious
price of their Redemption.
j.Thcy do moft groff^rly hola that the foal of Chrift went down
into the lowcft hell to perfedl their Redemption, for they make
four hells, or four ftorics in hell: In the firft of which they place the
fouls of all the holy men that died before the coming of Chrill: In
the fecond they place the fouls of all thofe children that die without
Baptifm: In the third they place the fouls of all thofe that fuffer
the piins of Purguory, and in the fourth helt,which is the loweft
of all,they place the fouls of the damned; and then they propound
this queftion , Into which of thefe places did the foule of
Chrift dcfcend after his death They anfwcr thus , That Chrift dcfcended
into all thefe parts of hell to triumph over Satan , and to
deliver the fouls of the Fathers, and to comfort others as their Advocate
and Redeemer: fee 'BelUrmine in his Chriftian Do(5trine.
But in all thefe tenents of theirs, they miftc m ft grolTeiy of the
true meritorious price of their Redemption; for they do never explicate
wherein the elficacy of his mediatoriall facrihce of Attonement
doth lie: they never fhew how his death was a mediatorial!
death, by the a(fhiall and joynt concurrence of both his natures,
which mediatoriall death of his muft be confidered as the only procuring
caufe of his Fathers Attonement, for our full Redemption,
JuftiAcation, and Adoption.
a. There is the like need to dear the meritorious price of our
Redemption, for the poor Jews fake: For, as Mr. Brottj^ittam doth
often aflfirm^they do gready ftumb'e at thefe two politions of ours;
firft in that we do make Chrift to ftand before God as a
gui!ty Tinner,
by his imputing all our ftns to him; andfecondly they ftumbic
at this ,
in that we do make the Me/Tuh to redeem us from the
coffc of the Law, by bearing the faid curfc for us.
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