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

1 2 The Mediatorial Price of our Part I.
till after d.is life is cndeJ ^ and chcrefure it is fitly called tht fccond
death : and therefore our Saviour could not luffer it while he was
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TradvC I corjfejfe, as jfou haze opened the firj}
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cur/ed death, in
Gen. 2.17. both in the root and in the branches thereof, J dmre not
n.'* hit Mi: %vhat I haz,. former Ij affirmed : and jet I am notfatisfiedinthe
poi^t in ejuefticrt : Therefore / pray rive me leave to aU
ledge the Reafcns and Arguments which J fnd cited by fur.drj
learned men y to prove that Chriji did redeem us hj ft*ffering the
(H'/J^ of tic Latv {or Its.
Learned Divines affirm that Chrifl hath horn the
Liiw t'^o ma/iKer of>X,r:js,ior onr Kedrmprion.
curfe of the
f^i'-J}, ( fajf they) He bare the guilt cj our fins, both origitial ar-d
aiiual, bj Gods imputati0^.
Secondly., They fay alfoy that he bare the^rathof Godin due
proportion to the cnrfe of the Lciw, net by imputation onjjf, but really
in oftr f}ead)for our jreedom and redemption therefrom. And thefe
ajfertions they provefrom feveral Scriptures, £:nd efpecia/iy from
Gods definitive fentence. in Ccn. 2.17.
Divine. I pray let me fee how you can infer from Gen. 2. 17.
that C.hrilt did bear Ad.ims fin by imputation -^and his curicd death
really •• and
before you go ab >ut to make your inference, confider
advifedly, i. What y/i/.^wj fin was. And 2. What was the true'
nature of that curled death that w.rs inflldLd upon him fr his fin»
and then I beleeve you uill loon fee irto wliat grofTe ablurditics;
the common doctrme of Impua'ion will kad jou. >
1 irfl, I fjy, Conlider Adams fin, what it was, and you will find
it tobehisdiiobcdientcati.ig ot the forbidden fruit, contrary to
6'odsexprtiTc prohibition, in (jen. 2.17.
Secondly,
Confider ah^^.w^ fin, by 6'ods imputation and his curie really,
then you mak'j Chrill to bear his Spiritual curfe, and then you
make him to be dead in corruption ind {m, and then he had more
need to get a Mediator to lave ium, then to be a Mediator to favc
others. Such wofuli inferences as this will often follow upon the
common Dcdrine of Imputation.
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