(262) Redemption. Heb.9 12. ParchAfhlg them tVith his oWn 616od. AaS 20. 28. Heb. 2. 14.1 Pet. I. 18. Gal. i. 4, Rev. 14; 3,4, Reply. I. All fruits of his death, are not procured for every man for whomhe dyed, He procured not the fame meafure of Grace, Illumination, Sanaification, for me, as for fome others : Nor, the fame freedom from temptations, ficknefs, malicious ene7 mies, d-c. Nor did he peocure aith infallibly to be given to all for whom be dyed as he did for his Fled'. As is laid before, procured it for us as thefinis ( though God be the ulti- mate end ) but not for us, as the fubje4s of prelent Right, till he fhould indue time and order convey a Right unto us. The very nature of Merit defcribed by the poi!le, Rom. 4. 4. infers no lefs.where Merit intercedes,the Ted t reckonedas of debt. have afliaved , .17 r°"9"klei That which is my due debt, I have a Right unto. * Thefruits of the The fruits of death are the rues of Merit (bottomedon Gods gracious Chrifts death Acceptation) and reckonedas of debt. are my due Reply. I confefs,he that.merited, bath a Right unto the thing Debt; viz merited as ofDebt. But we that go on lower Principles then you, Jhitejrnca dare not fay to G od,Lord, I have meritedfalvation in Chr: 1,thtre- led, yea un- born. But that fore iti mine of debt.i do not think you are Chrift : nor that you fa/ft. were in Chrift when he Merited : nor that you merited in him. What then though Chrift bath of Debt a Right to Pardon and fave you ? Will it follow that you have ofdebt, (and that before you believe, and before you are born ) a Right to Pardon and Salvation ? I (hail think not, till I fee better proof. He for whom a ranfom tic paid,hath a Right mato his liberty 6y ver- tne of that payment. Reply. All unproved, and by me unbelieved. If you pay a fumme to the Turk for a lcoo flaves , thereby buying them abfo- 1utely into your own power ; I do not believe that they have any more Right to freedom then they hadbefore : though you have Right to free them, if you pleafe. They are nowyour own . you may do with them as you will. Or if you refolve to free them, that gives them no Right. If a Prince pay a ranfom for fome Traytors to the King his Father, therebypurchafing to himfelf a Dominion ( or Propriety ) over them , fo that they are abfo- lutelyhis; though both Father and Son agree that all or fome of thefefhall be fo dealt with, as that their deliverance may be cer- tain, yet I think it gives them no more Right to it then. they had
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