Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT770 .B39 1670

The Life of Faith. 325 holding only the paflìve ; a fecond fort the active and pallive ; a third fort, the habitual,acwive and pallice ; a fourth foot, the divine, the habitual, the alive and the pallive. But of all theft things there is fo much written againfl them, by Cargius, Vrfinus, Olevian,Fifcatir, Pareas, Scultetus, Iljtedius, Wendeline, Camero, vradfhaw, Gataker, and many more, that I need not to add any more for confutation. Errour 3. That na oneffialipuffer whole fins lay on Chrift, and were fufferedfor by him. Contr. Many filch foaA fifer the firer puni/hment, for finning againft the Lord that bought them, and treading under foot tige bloodof the Covenant, wherewith they werefofar finctified, as to bo a people by their own Covenant feparated raGod,Hcb.10.25,26.- Heb. 6.4,5,6.2 Pet. 2.2. H:Á.4.7, & 2. 3.& 12. 29. Errour g.. That no godly .man (fay fome (or Elect polo; though ungodly (fay others) u ever punifhed by God, becaufa Chrift flirtedall t heir punllhment birofclf. Contr. Every godly man is chaftened of God, and ai chaftife-- nrent is a fatherly correcting punifhment : And many juffified. perfons arepunifhed to their final lof?, by the denyal of forfeited degrees of grace, and conferluently of glory, Heb, r;t. 7, 8, 9,1a., s Cor. s s. 32. s Thief. 5.59. EpheG4. 30. Eut fad eaoer;enco is too full a proof: See nny Confejjion. Errour 5. That Godwere unpin. ifhe laidany degree ofpunifh anent on tbofe that Cbr ft died for or (fay others) on the jufti.. fled ; becaufe hefhouldp<nifh one fin twice. Contr. It is certain, that God punifhetb the ?unified in fame degree(much wore the Elect before converfion) and it is certain that God is not unjuft. Therefore it is certain that the ground of thisaccufation is fille ; for it was not our defervedps nifhmenr it Of, or the fame which was duc in the true fenfe of the Lare which Chrifl endured : but it was the punifhtncnt of a volun- tary fponfor, which was the egnivalens, andnot the idem that was duc ; anddid anfwer the ends of the Law, but not.,fulfii theìneaning of the threatning;. which threatned the pinnes', himself, and not another for him : feeing. then it was afatif faction, orjacrifiée for fin, which God received for an attonc ment and propitiation, and not a [elution or furfering of tha fanner himfelfin the fcnfe ofthe Law, the charge oftnjuftisc on God is gtoundleL , 6.f ¡, Quid,

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