Eyiftle to the 7hcffálosians. VEIL t t. be attired his obedience or pafon was fatisfaftory for thee? by right of Creation, God }lath abfblute power over his creature,to inioin it any thing to be done or fur fcred;the creatures,becaufe creatures,tand boird to f ob- ie&ion. Nothing was fï.tpererogatory in our Sauiour,nor therefore fatisfatiory for vs, in cafe there Heretikes bee teachers of Truth ; that Chrift is a meere creature. Secondly, Neither could we beleeue, any thing hee did or MU:fered to be fatisfaftory to Gods Iuftice.The of- fence required an infinite fatisfa£tion. So could not Ch rifts haue beene, fauc onely through the excellency of his divine perron : wherefore it is that we are fo often put in mind, of! hid Deitygir.ing vertreto his Sacrifice. Thirdly, Betides, it belongs to the Mediator, not on ly to merit for vs eternall Redemption ; but to proteft vs by his Grace and Power, till we bee in poifeflion of the purchaled inheritance : to tread Satan under our feet ; to deftroy Death and Hell ;to irrdge the World in righte- eurneffe ; to giue vs admittance into that Kingdome pre- pared and purchaled forvs in his blood. Are there works ofa meere creature? The World once groned to lee it felfe become an Ar- rian ; the Patriarch of that Here fie God tooke away by a remarkable vengeance. The famous Councell of Nice curled to Hell the Blafphemy it contained. Could wee thinkeitpotlible,its this cleere Light of the Gofpell, it Ihould dare to peepe out amongìî vs ? It feemes, the fa- ther of lyes, remet nbring, how of old it aduantaged his Kingdome, hauing tryed his skill and malice in lowing Difcords and DifTentions in matters of finaller moment to his no great aduanrage, hopes once againe to taint vs with Arrianifine; if to no outer itfue, yet to make our Church & Religion odious:6th from amongll vs, there rife vp men of peruerfe mindej, fpeakjn4fo pernerfe things. But blefed be God,that hathkept ourTeachers from the leaf taint of that Herehe 5 and furred vp the heart of his R 3 An- 245 s. z. t Heb,9.14. f lohn 1.7, 3. Hieron,
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