• ·The Preface. ing of the Wifdom of God in our Redemption by Chrifl, with refpeCt unto the conqudl: of the Devil, lib. 5. cap. ·1. . Patens in omnibus Dei Verbum, & nori de"' ficiens in [ua Juftitia, jufte etiam adr-·oerJus ipfam con1Jerjus eft, Apojtajiam, ea qu.e Junt Jua redimens, ab eo, non cum roi, quemadmodum ille initio do}ninabitur noflri, ea qu~ non e~nt fua infatiabiliter rapiens-----Suo igitur fanguine redi:: mente nos Domino·, & dante animam foam pro anima no:: flra, & carnem fuam pro carnibus noftris, &c. Again di-– vinely ; The a!l-po"»Jerful Word of God no "»Jay defeBirve in 1?Jghteouji1efl, Jet himfelf againft the 1poftacy jufl?J alfo ; 'redeeming from him, ( Satan the head of the Apoftacy) the things which were his own ; not with force , M he bare . ~le o.-ver us, infatiably making rt(apine of what was not his own----- :But he the Lord redeeming us with his o11Jn blood, gi.-ving his foul for our foul, and his ftejh for ours, wrought out our deli--verance. rfhefe things are at large infifl:ed on in the enfuing Difcourfe. · It .belongs unto this great Myfl:ery, and is a fruit of Divine \X'ifdorn , that our Deliverance fhould be \Vr~ught in and by the fame Natufe, wherein and vvhereby \Ve were ruined. The Reafons hereof, and the Glory of God therein are at large .difcourfed in ,the enfl1ing 'Treatife. 'To the fatne purpofe fpeaks the fa1ne holy Writer, lib. 5. cap. J 4· Non in femet::: ipfo recapitulajjet !?.£c Vominus , niji ipje- caro & fangu3 Jecundum princqJalem plajinationem faCtus fuijfot; Salrvans
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