Downame - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .D75 1628z

512 The fccondBooke ofDilinitie, CH A p, 9, the price, by the (heading of Chrids Bloud , to free vs from the feruitude of finne and death : which the Apo_ kle touchette, Ephef..I.7. and Colof.r.14. and is the Ran- fome or Matter of our Redemption. The other , a fruit and effeé of the former, which in that place to the ephefsans C is alto mentioned , whenby hirewee are fet free indeed. And that is theRedemption meant, I.Cor, 1,30.in theputting awayofcuill, and the beffowing of all good. Wherfore twoparts here offer themfelucs.One is , the remooningof our curled effate fetting vs free fromDeath , Hell, and Condemnation , and from the Curie of theLaw , by his Death and fafferings : for Ty death heehath aboltfiedhim that hath the power of death, that t%s, the Deuil, and let themfree who throughfeare of death, mere all there life long vnto bondage, faith the Apofile to the d Fiebretees. And ÿa1.3.8. Chrtfl hath redeemed vsfroth the Curfe of the Law, being made a Carp for vs, as it is written, Curled is euerie one that hangeth vpora the Tree. The other is,the making ofvs bleffed by the partid- pation of his Bieffedneffe. A reward that followeth our Iuffification through Chriff. So wee are plainly taught, Gal. 3. g.The Scripture forePeeing that by Faith God would inf?¡fie the Nations, publilhed the glad tidings before vnto ABRAHAM, that in thee(that is, in thy Secd,CM R i ST I E s v s)fhall ail Nation; be bleffd : For being approoued ofGod as righteous in Chriff, confequently in him wee are to have a reward. Reuel. 16.6. They /hall walke with me inwhites: for they are worthy. The diffinet degrees ofBleffcdneffe come now tobee confidered : for truly may the Children ofGod befaid, even in this life bleffed ; meaning it inpart, as a flee and ífaire to climbe vp vnto full and perfe&Happiiieffe.And thereof came tl,ofe phrafes e He that belecuethinmees (or as it is in another place) f Hee that beleeueth in the Sonne, bath euerlajii#g lrfe, and coinmeth Not vnto iudge- EQ6iefr.rq. Freeing vs from the curie (him elfe be- somming a curie for vs) tl HeS.a.rq. he màkethvs bleflèd, by the p-,rticipation of bis .Blciikd- nçlfe. OurBleffcd- neíl'e, in the e$atewenow arc in,ftIndcth e lohn 6.47. fIcbn 3,360

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