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the Cuife of the Law, the Torments of Hell, the pains ot the
Damned, the fecond Death, and many fuchlike, to redeem us
from ihem.
Thefc terms I rcje(5t,
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as not agreeable to the Divine McloJy of
Xhws ] have briefly told you what I affirm, and what j deny ;
now thereiore I pra\ ycu ih prodiKc your Arguments and Objcdi-
ons'againft irc ; I dcfirc to ttc how you can prove that Chrift I
did fuffer tiie Wrath of God for our R'dcrr.ption.
Traded / W/7/ fttch mj f>rjl Proof from the immHtahiHtj cf the
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frjiCurfeeimiexedtothehre^uhofthcfyfi LaW of Prbhihiiitn :
The L^w cf Prohibition yhyis thtu, Of the Tree ot K.nov\ Iclgc cf
good and evil., thou (halt not cat. The Cnrfe annexedfolUwSj
Cen. 2.17. In Gen. 2. 1 7. In the day thou catefi thereof, thou Ihau dy the
% death. This is ti definitive fent enceyund it ts doubled in tl/e Hebrew
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in dying, thou (halt dy : Thetis ffay, Thm ,
jlJt certainly, dy the death, roen de^th Eternal i>i htll, nnltfs thy
Redeen er dofufftr thefAid Curfe for thee^ to redeem theefrom it.
DtriKc, I pray you Ihcw me how you do gather Irom this Ttxt
that our Redeemer was nectfiitated to fijtfcr this Curfe to Redeem
fallen man from it :
to prove it.
Let me fee how you can infer your Argument
Trad^f. (^^y Argument lies tntu •, In the day thou eateft thereof,
in dying, thou (halt dy ;
th^t is to fay, Thou Adam, in thine
ct9n Perfcn, attd Thcuin thy I'ojferity, or tlfe Thou in thy Redeem*
er, there is ro efcafinr from this dcf»itive ettrfed Death ;
7/Adam
didbtft once tat of the Forbidden Vruit-i either he mufl dy eternally,
§r elfc his Ktdri nier myfifujfer thefaid cnrfed death in hisfteed.
Dizihe, YourExpofition of this Text is true in parr, but in
pj^r I dillike it \ You (ay wdl^