C Epiftleof S. Paadeo 'Titled. iTAP.2,d4 and frgnifcation of it. Nowwho feethnot, that the remembrance of a so; thing is a farcediuerfe thing from the thing rcmembred ? yea neceffarily argaeth the abfenceof the thing remembred. Now whichof thefemuti . we beleeue ? truely both alike, that is, neither; feein g the word one obla- tion, deflroyeth both. x. We grant that there muff bee an application of this oblation,but not by fuch wickedmeans as they haue deuifed,name- ( charts mart ly, by themultiplication ofit felfe; as if aman fhould in (lead of apply- efeQhowap. ingone plainer, doe nothing eh but make infinite plaifters,whercas one ° truely applyed CO the fore, werebetter then they all:but hewho was the facrifice,beeing the wifedomeofhisFather,hath deuifed awirer meanes toapply vncobeleeuers hisoblation,namcly,by the outward andordina- tie meanesof the Word and Sacraments; as alto inwardly by his fpiric, workingby thole meanes effeetuall faith in our hearts, whereby we lay hold vpou all our goodvnto faluation. And if there were someanes to apply Chrifis merit votobeleeuers, then by daily offering himfelfewith it;then were there no meanes toapply veto vs the fruit and benefit ofhis incarnation,death,refurreelion, or afcenfion,vnleffehe fhouldbeborne, die,rife, and afcend euery day, for the reafon is the felfe fame. life. 2. In that it is laid, that Chritigaue himfelfe, we may note that ñRrift ite' Chri(l gane himfelfe wholly, both his bodie and foule in facrifce, and Forerohouy fpared neither :for we had deferued a double death, which it was meete ulc,dwhyr that Chrifl by adouble death fhoulddenroy, by his bodily death pull out the flingof the deathof our bodies, andvtcerly abolifh the deathof our foules, by the death ofhis foule; and to this purpofe that our conio- Mre,r6 ;t. lation might be full, the Scripture fheweth, how that his ioule sys bu- oy vnto the death : and that a little before his fuffering his foule was fore troubled. And Efay expreffely afftrmeth , that his foule trowelled in his u,,r ;,. death, and that he made his foole an offering for finne, and powred out his r.c> pounded. foule votodeath, and that he made his graue with the rich in his deatkr: where note that he fpeaketh in the plural( number, to note this double deathofChrifl:and what other thing did himfelfe proclaimewith fuch a loud voice vpon the crotte, when he cried, c My God, myGod, why hat ,M Oh,y,g6. thouforfa&en me ? for what other is the deathof the ioulc, but to bee le- parated fromGod the fountaine of life? which point helpethvs to yo- del-Rand fuch places of theScripture, a, affirme that Chriii fuffered and died according to theftefh, Ioh.6.5 r. and that Chriti offered his bailie, ,To),.'.7. Heb.ro.to. andall thole which afcribe all our faluation to the blood of ALt.1o.a8. Cbrig. All which muti be fynechdochicallyvnderflood,veder onekind comprehending all his fuffeting, and neuer excluding any part ofit:etie- rie of thembeing equivalent to this (peach of theApotile, whogoose him- felfe: that is,both his bodie and foule,or whollyveto the death : neither I i 3 c gar'
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