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

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Bac the Ebrcw Dodors do in a jeding and fcofHog manocr (ay
unto us, Thdt every FexJisHpaj kis own skjit to tbt FUyer' Sec
fTeems on the Jew, ^.3 1 8. and yet woe and alasl the poor Jews are
lamentably blinded i^ut the mcficorious price of our Redempti-
on:
For,
I. Though Torn ofch^ Ebrcw Dodlors have affirmed, that the
Mefliah fhould* fufifer death for their Redemption , and chat his
ru£Ferings(hould be marvellous great, yet I cannot perceive that
they do look upon the death of Chrifi in a right conftrudion, be*
caufe they do not look upon it as a mediatorial! death adnated bjr
his own power, even by the joynt concurrence of both his natures.
1. The mod of the Jews (except a few) do hold that the Me(fiah
(hall never (uff'er any kind of death at all: The Jews in generall
were once perfwaded for a time, that one Raif^i Akib^ was the
King Chrift: yea both himfejf, and all the wife men of that age
thought he had been Chrift the King untill he was killed for his iniquities,
and when he was kil'd
then they knew he was not fo. See
Ainf, on JDMr.S.ip.By this tcftimonv of theirs it is evident thatthe
Jews in generall did hold that their McHiah fhouid never die at
all: and m our Savionrsdaics, when he told the Jews that he muft
be put to death, amd tbst tbe bcur was come in which the Sen ef M4m
jheuU be glorified, John 1 2. 23,32. then the Jews did (hunble at this
Dodrine, and faid, fVe have heard out of the Law that Cbrift abideth
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far ever. How then fayefi then that the Son ofiMan mnft be lifted ufi^
v.34.From hence it is evident, that the Jews in generall did hold
^. that the Mefliah fhould not redeem his people by fiifFering any
;. kind of death at all:but their common tenent was.thit the MeHian
(hould redeem them from the Nations of the woild by outward
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1 power, as aftately King and Conqueror, and in this carnall fenfe,
they did ordinarily underhand that fpirituall promife made unto
David,m 1 Sam. 7.1. Iwillefiablifh the Throne of hie Kingdom for
ever. This etemall Throne the Jewcsfexcept a few) do underftand
it of the outward pompous Kingdom of the Mefliah; yea the very
ApolHesthemfdvesforagood while together, underftood not
the fpirituall nature of the Kingdom^ of tha Mefliah, Mar.9.9^Q*
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Therefore it follows from the premifes; that the Jews as long
as they are ignorant of the fpirituall nature ef the Kingdomeof
Chnd, cannot underlland the true meritorious price of their Redemptioa