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

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^^ *Pfal. 49. 5. and in Pf*:l. 51. 10. My ftrength faileth me hecaufe
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24 Tht t^t€rit9mmVric€cf our Parti.
tion ) adore the(c things as the mcricorioui caufe of their (alvation ,
they adore the nails, and the wooddenCrofTc whereon our Lord
was cruciHed as a malefador : and they pretend it ^ out of love to
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Chrift ; but they might do well to coniidcr whether ic be the property
ofa dutiful child to love the knit'e of d;6 murderer ihat killed
his Father.
But I will leave them to their blind devotion, and (peak a litde
more of the healing venue of his ftripcs.
I hold it neceflary often to remember this diuindion ; namely,
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£lih as^ ma'S- ^^^ Chtift fuffctcd both as a maletador, and z% a Mediator, at one
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and thc famc time: he did not only patiently (ufier others to fcourge i
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and "he famc"*^ him, (for many bleifcd Marty rs have done as much as that} but he
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time did more than patiently fufftfr j foi he delighted to give hi« back to
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thc rmiters,and he delighted to give his Sotil to God (in the time oi
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his (uffcrings)
as a Mediatorial Sacrifice of Atonement,for thc procuring
ol his Fathers Atonement to poor linnets, Efai, 53.1 oJthn
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10. 1 8. This kind ofobedience I call his Mediatorial obedience : {
and yet it was performed in the time of his palij ve obedience : and
thus by his Mediatorial obedience through death , and through
ftripes, he hath deilroyed him that had the pov^er of death, that if
the Devil. Hr^. 2.14.
TradeC I confel^e I dare not deny jonr irtterfretatlofty neither •fl
Eiay, M9r $f Peter ; andjet I am ff$t fuilj fatufed touching that
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fhrafe of Peter ; ib«w Chrifi hat e cur fins in his body, on the Tree : I
frayyoH therefore of en that fhrafe a little more fully.
Divine, You know that the Rukrs of the Jews did account our
Saviour as a notorious (inner, and that therefore they did intiigate
Pilate to puni(h him as a (inner, in his body, on the Tree : i Pet.t.
24. and in this fenie he bare ourlins^ namely the punifhment of
fin, in his body on the Tree :
for he was crucified as a lintui maiefad«^r,
and tin is often puz for the outward puniftment of £n ,
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put for outward ofmine ivicjuitie : the Geneva reads it tfius My ftrength faileth
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btxfliy
fugfygcaHfe ofmj pain • or becaufe of thc pimilliment oi mine iiiifcriitt
which
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Godot man quitfc. So in 2 A *«.''. 9. StntviU ctme ufon m : >hatis vre iraJl
mw/S"" btpunillied tor car fins. So \T\PfMl,^i*. 6. They ftarch out if^iquities-^
that is to (ay, wicked Tyrants dolirarcioui the Godly,
whom they count as thc chcet of finners.tl at they may punilh th m
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