Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	everlasting_a	life_n	8,204	5	4.8739	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42457	An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of justifying faith, cleared by the light of scripture, and solid reason, from several mistakes of the words, which misapprehensions prove the seeds of dangerous errours by ... Thomas Gataker ... ; to which is added, The way of truth and peace, or, A reconciliation of the holy apostles S. Paul and S. James, concerning justification by faith without works, Rom. 3.28, by works and not by faith only, Jam. 2, 21, 24, by Charles Gataker ...	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.; Gataker, Charles, 1614 or 15-1680. Way of truth and peace.	1679 (1679)	Wing G311; ESTC R6785	56,240	74

reallie answer it as we use to say of a partie or his suretie upon payment made or satisfaction given that he hath answered the debt For the word here used even in the form here used is taken in a notion of answering Ezek. 14. 3 6. yea and that of a real kind of answering as by inflicting there so by sustaining here by taking vengeance in the one place by giving satisfaction in the other either of w ch by the term of payment we ar wont to expres Now where ful satisfaction is made and accepted for the the breach or transgression of a Law the Law is not thereby repealed or abrogated but it is rather thereby manifested to be firm and of force to oblige those whom it concerns either to the strict observation of it or to a just compensation in some kind or other made for default therein committed and this hath our Saviour Christ in our behalf exhibited For howsoever I dare not run out so far as to affirm as manie do that our Savior suffered the verie self-same torments partlie in his Agonie and partlie on the Cross that the damned souls suffer and those that have interest in the merit of his sufferings should have suffered in Hell much les that he suffered such an high degree of torments in those few howers while he hung on the Cross as did in the intension and extremitie thereof ad pondus for weight answer and was adeqate unto all those penalties made up into one Mass and comprised in one lump that unto all eternitie the whole multitude of Gods elect for all whose sinnes he satisfied were to have endured the power of his Deitie supporting and enabling his humane nature thereunto since that Christs humane nature in which the satisfaction was to be made and was made being but a finite creature could not be capable of admitting such an infinite weight of torment as such a masse of endles suffering must of necessity have amounted unto albeit for the allay hereof that were allowed which a learned man of eminent parts from Picus and Scotus suggests that unto the sinnes of the penitent because they are broken off by repentance an infinit penaltie is not du which yet seems to want sound ground of proof from Gods word wherein the Apostle speaking of the sinnes of the faithful who had now cast off the service of sinne saith in general their 's not excluded the stipend of sin or the pay du to it a militarie term is death and that eternal death is intended appeares by its opposite everlasting life said there to be Gods Donative as Tertullian wel renders it being a term of the like nature with the former that is his larges or free gift such as the Roman Generals besides their pay used to confer upon their Souldierie and tho granted would hardlie withdraw weight enough to make a finite creature capable of it within so narrow a stint of time as some three howrs could make up I conceiv that keeping our selves within the bounds of Christian sobriety in this profound mysterie we may safely say that Christs humiliation through the whole cours of his life and his sufferings as wel in Soul as in Bodie in his whole humane nature consisting of both neer upon his death together with his death in that manner inflicted and sustained the eminencie of the person being even God as wel as Man that was content to expose and abase himself unto al this Phil. 2. 6-8 being duelie weighed was such and so great as God deemed in Justice eqivalent unto and wel worthie to weigh down whatsoever was reqisite to the discharge of the debt of all those that had interest therein For as for that which the same Autor subjoins and some other also have therein concurring with him that the worth and excellencie of Christs person was onlie to make the passion availeable to manie but was not at all to dispens with the continuance nor the grievousnes of his pains and that if it might dispens with anie degree of extremitie of punishment due to sin it might dispens also with two and so conseqentlie with all seems to ty and stint Gods justice to over-strict terms and the worth and value of Christs sufferings to such a precise rate as their private estimation shal deem fit to assign it As on the other side they seem to raise it to an higher estimate then there appears good ground for and to control Gods wisdome in the disposing the means of procuring mans justification in such manner as he hath designed and in such a measure of sufferings and humiliations as he assigned Christ to undergo who stick not to affirm that the least drop of Christs bloud was of so infinite a valew as was sufficient to make a ful satisfaction to Gods Justice for the discharge of the sinnes of the whole World Which if it were tru then the bloud shed in the Circumcision of our Saviour had been sufficient to have answered Gods Justice and to have made a ful compensation to whatsoever the law of God could in utmost rigor have reqired on the part of all that had ever transgressed it And so all that Christ afterward either did or endured and his death it self the upshot of all had been superfluous and needles which how it will consist with the wisdome of God and love to his Sonne I shall leave to be deemed by others of deeper reach then my self Howsoever Christ having of his own accord become our suretie and undertaken the discharge of our debt and it being at the choise of the Creditor or Partie wronged even according to Law to reqire satisfaction of the debt or compensation of the wrong done either from the Debtor and delinquent himself or from his Suretie as it is a favor and mercie in God to forbear the exacting it of us who were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of no abilitie unable utterlie to perform it Rom. 5. 6. so it is not against but according to his Law even that Law unto which we were obnoxious for the breach of it to exact of our suretie a ful compensation for all our transgressions In a word that Justification is an act of Justice and not a matter of free favor or meer mercie alone appeers evidentlie from the verie term to Justifie whence it is deduced whither we consider it in its native notion or in its ordinarie use For 1. In its native notion and proprietie the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Hebrew and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek as also whatsoever term we can frame in Latine or English to answer in anie du analogie unto either of these two it doth and must include a notion of Justice in it For howsoever we trulie affirm that neither of those the Hebrew or Greek term do necessarilie intimate a making just save in such sens as hath formerlie ben hinted and might therefore in Latine be rendred by the word justare derived from justus