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That
Cheíf
îmerits
¿elmgs
to
etcery
belee:
er;
3o;
numerable
deaths
?
and
how
could
the temporary and
fhort
punifhment which Chrifi
indured,
free
vs all
that-beleeué
AEt,ao
:
from the
euerlafiing punifhments
ofhel
fire,fceing the iuflice
ofGod
requireth
that
there fhould
be
fome
proportion, be-
tweene
the
punifhment
which
wee deferucd, and the fatisfa-
&ion which
Chriftmade
and
offered
?
I
anfv-vere,
that
Chrifl
who
fuffered
for
vs,was
not
man
only
but God
alto; in
which,
refpe6Ì
it
is
Paid,
that God
purchafed his
Church with
his
blood;
not that
God
hath
blood,but
becaufe he
that
flied his
b!ood,was. not.only man
but
alfb
God;and
therfore
his
fhort
fufferings were
oftnoreworth,
vertue
and
value,
than
the e-
=Tailing
fuffrings
ofall
the
world;for they fhould
euer
haue
fitffred,but could
therby
neuer haue fatisfied,becaufe
our
fins
defamed
infinitpunithments,in that
wee had
by them
offen-
ded the infinit
iuflice
and Maiefly
ofGod
which
becaufe
finite creatures
:could
not
beare,
Gods
iufiice
required
that
they
fhould
bee infinit
in
time and euerlafiing, feeing they
could
not
bee
infinite in meafure
;
but
the
fufferings
of
Chrifi,though fhort
in
time, yet
were they infinit
in value,
worth
and
merit,
becaufe he was
not
man
alone,but
God
al-
£o,and therefore
at
once
he
put
-away
finne
by the
facrifie
of
hitnfelfe,and
bq
his oane
ob1
r
ton he rooks
a
:ay
the
fins
of
many
-,
Hcb.9,zI.
as
it
is
Heb.9.z6.28.As
therefore
Adams
f
n,whzch in
it
felfe
was finit,
as
proceeding
fr6
a
finit
creature,notwithfianding
deferucd
infinitpunifhment,becaufe
God
whom
by
hisfinne
he offended was infinite
;
fo
contrariwife Chrifis
fuffrings
were
but
offhort
continuance in
refpe&
of
time;bnt
yet
of
infinit
merit
and
worth,becaufe
he
that
fuffered was
not
man
alone,but
allo
God,and
therefore
infinit.
.
Lafily,the
tetnpter
will obie
&
that
Chrifis
death and
men
§.g
rits,though theybee
in
themfelues
a
fuffìcient
price
for our
That
rbrrßs
.redemption,yeethey doe
not
belong vntoys, neither
will
be
death
aid
n11.;'
effeetual for
our
faluation.Let it
be
graunted(wil
he
fa
that
rlts
Gelong
t®
g
y)
partite.
the
death andmerits
of
Chrifl
are fufficient
for the (ablation
far Gelerer>
ofall:yetwhat
comfort
cants
thou
receive
hcrby,feeing
thou
cants haue
no
affurance
that
they
belong
unto
thee,or
will
be
ef}eéuallfor thy redemption?
for
either he
hath'redee-
Rued
áll
or
but
faint
only;
ofall,
then
fore
who
are
redec-