308 / 772
'2-
80
Of
ottr
Redemption.
price
ofour
redemption,
feeing
the
fcriptures
teflifie
that
by
his
power
hee
hath
forcibly deliuered
vs
out
of
the hands
of
our
fpirituall enemies.
So
Heb.2.r4.
it
is
faid,
that
Chrtfi
de-
frayed
him
??uho
had the
polbrr
of
death,
that
is
the datell.
And
CoI.2.I
5.
the
Apofile
fheweth,
that
hce
hath
piled
princi_
palities and
powers,
and
bath
led them
openly
and
triumphed ouo
them.
And
Luk.r
r.2 2.1e
is
compared
to
a
valiant champion
who
bath thrufl
the
firong
man Satan
out
of
his poífef ion
:
by
which
it
may appeare,that
our
Sauiour
hash
not
redeemed
vs
by
giuing
a
price after
a
legali manner,but by
force,and
as
it
were
by
conquefl.
I
anfwere,that
Chriffbath both
paid
the
price
of
our redemption, and,
all()
hath
deliuered
vs
forciblie
by
his
power
;for
hee
paid
the
price
vnto
God to
whom
hee
offered the
facrifice
ofhünfelfe,that
it might
be
a full fatisfa-
&
}ion
for
fnnne,and
a fufficient
price
to
redeeme
vs
out
of
the
captiuitie
of
our fpirituall
enemies,and to
purchafe
the fauor
ofGod,and
our
heauenly inheritance
in
his
kingdome
:
and
therefore
in
refpeaofGod
the Father,
to
whomour
Sauiour:
offered himfelfe, he
is
Paid
to
haue
redeemed
vs
bygiuing
a
ranfome
for
vs.
But
when
Gods
iuflice was
fullie fatisfied,
Chrill
dealt
not
with
our fpirituall
enemies
by intreatie,
(much
leffe
offered
he this price
of
our redemption
to
Satan;.
for
if
no
facrifice
might
lawfully
bee
offered,
vnto
any
faue
God
alone,much more vnlawfull
was
it
that
this
facrifice
of
Chrifls
bodie, fhould
bee
offered
vnto the
diuell)
but
by
his
almightie power
hee ouercame the power
of
darkneíle, van-
quifhed
Satan, fubdued
death, and broke
open
the
prifon
of
the
graue,and
fo
b
1
}rong hand
fet
all
Gods
ele6t
at
libertie,
For
after
that the debt
ofour
fnnes
was
difcharged, our ran
-
fome
paid,and
the
handwriting
of
ordinances cancelled
and
nailed vnto the
croffe,thefe
our
fpirituall enemies
had no
iufl
interefl vnto
vs,
nor
any
thing
to
alleage
why they fhould
longer
hold
vs,
in
their captiuitie;
but
yet the ílrong
man
who
had taken
poffefíion
would
not
willingly
lofe
it,
vnleffe
hee
were ouercome
with
a
greater
firength
:
and therefore
become
our Chriíl hauing
bought
vs
of
his
Father,
and
fo
our
Sauiour
true
owner,
buckled
with
our
fpirituall ene-
mies,
ouercame thefe
principalities andpowers,
triumphed
gloriously
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