CHar.2.í4. cíf tsonemextarie vpon the §ro daily crucified before their ties , to revoke it into their memories ; let them confcionably vfe there tneanes to this ende; that this gift twining suer in their minder andmemories, they may bethink: them what they may acceptably returne for fo great receits ; and when they heare their I hearts called for , they may glue heart and hand , head and feete , will and affeetlions,vp to the perpetual! feruice of fogood a benefaétor. Seeing Chrift i Fourth' , IfChri(I haue giuen himfelfe for of , then there is no other hash Siren fatista&ion for finne. Ifangels or men, !ruing or dead, maflesor merits,' him! dfr,there need,. no caber could haue fatisfied the iuffice of God, Chriti might haue (pared Rtúfaeuon for fflfe ; but nothing canbe given toGod,nothing acceptedofGod in way Glm of tatisfathon ofmans finne , but theperfon and merits ofChria him- felte : for ifany thing belonging to our perlons could goe for paimenr, then might he haue retained his glorie in heauen, and neuer haue left it for our fakes.If any Papitl hand out here,and lay,that Chrifi takcth our workes anddieth them in his blood,and then of£reth them tohis Father, who accepteth them as meritorious not for our takes , nor their owne, but onely for Chri(f. I anfwer, that Chri(i indeede dieth the workes of wedooiku "Y'.. thegodly in his blood, and foprefenteth them vnto his Father, and his Chrills blood, Father accepteth them at his hands; but no way in re(pe&t of any latis- ,,.cep faEtionoffnne,or merit offaivation, but oncly asteffimonies of our cable. thankefulncfl'e and duty,and not otherwife. That he might redeeme vsfromall iniquitie,] In theft words is contained the former fruit or end ofChrifls giuing himfelfe, namely, to redeeme his Church from all the bondage and lia- clerie of inne. For by (inne we became bound, t, to the feruiee ofit, 2, to damnation,the (upend of it: both which the Apofile included), in that Chrill redee. he faith,that (inne raioned voto death: where is both the raignc and cort- msd his church ¡ mand of finne,and the wages of it,which isdeath, Now the Lord lens `ot éo iinoé`i redeemed his Church out of this captiuitie two waies. a. By paying rite cwowaics. price ofredemption vnto his father, euen the moU precious blood of the I Tonne ofGod:for fo bycommunication ofproperties it is here faid,that themightie God galle himfelfe to redeeme vs,that is, the life of that per- fon whowas God, went for our ranfome; whereby ourdebt is freely(in regard ofvs) difcharged,the bill cance!led,and the hand writing again$ 2 vs fattened veto his croffe. 2.By canquell: for he bound the firong man that hadvs in his power,fpoiled principalitiesandpowers,ouer whome I he glorioufly triumphed;and thus partly by price,andpartly by power, Hvfo(7,,a redeemed and refcued his people. tuffcring çonld Quell. But how could Chrift by giuing himfelfe for, fo (mall a time, redeem` fr' redeeme all his Church from fuch infinite euills ? e/infw. We muff Infiniteeuills. x hereconfider three things. z. The dignitie andercellencie of the perfeu who
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