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

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2 2 The MeritorioM Thrice of 9ur Part I.
might provoke God to punilh Ub more deeply.
Secondly, Godsend in (utfering Satan and his inftruments to
wound and ftripc our bUfTed Mediator , was that by his ftripcs wc
might be healed : Stripes properly taken do not heai, but wound
the flefh : but as Hripes are as a Synecdoche of his fuffv rings , for
the tryal of his Mediatorial obedience •, fo they have a healing vertuc
; for when (7od had tryed his obedience, and found it perfedl
andintire, lacking nothing; then
he became the Author, or the
Meritorious procuring caufc of (7ods atonement for
our healing j
for by his Mediatorial Sacrifice of Atonement (trycd through fufferiiigt,)
he procured his Fathers Atonement for our pardon, or
for our Healing; for pardon and forgivcneire doth htal our finful
Souls j asZ^^z-jWdothexprefle it, in 774/4,1.14. and in P/^/. 105.
3. This healing of the Soul is al(b afcribed to the Mcdiatorjas well
as to the Father j namely, as he is the Meritorious procuring caufc
oUhe Fathers Atonement ; andtiicrcforc M*itthew doth tcil us,
that Chrill did not only heal mens bodies, but forgive fins ;
A/at,
9.2.6. ^nd healing in Mat. \ 1. 1