innocent Lambe of God, pro nocente et malefico ut
was damned in the presence of apud summi judicis _tribunal_ ejus
an earthlie judge, that we suld damnatione absolveremur.
be absolved befoir the _tribunal_
seat of our God."--Dunlop, ii.
37, 38.
5. "Suffered ... the cruell Crucifixus in cruce quae Dei
death of the Crosse, quhilk was lege maledicta fuerat.
accursed be the sentence of
God."--Dunlop, ii. 38.
6. "Suffered for a season the Divini judicii horrorem et
wrath of His Father quhilk sinners severitatem sensisse ... luens
had deserved. Bot zit we poenas non suae ... sed nostrae
avow that He remained the only iniquitati. Neque tamen
wel-beloved and blessed Sonne intelligendum est patrem illi
of His Father, even in the middest unquam iratum fuisse. Quomodo
of His anguish and enim dilecto filio, in quo illi
torment."--Dunlop, ii. 38. complacitum est, irasceretur.
[119] Alasco's Works, ii. 296, 298.
[120] Chapters xii.-xv.
[121] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 46. "Sunt autem dona Spiritus Sancti,
per quem regeneramur, e diaboli potestate et vinculis explicamur, in
filios Dei gratuito adoptamur, ad omne opus bonum sanctificamur."--Calvin.
[122] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 47.
[123] Westminster Confession, chap. x.
[124] Dunlop's Confessions, ii. 58. There is hardly one of these
expressions that may not be found in Calvin's Institutes:--
It behoves us to apprehend Confiteor nos justificari per
Christ Jesus with His justice and fidem quatenus per eam apprehendimus
satisfaction. Jesum Christum.
We are set at this liberty Omni execratione quae nobis
that the curse and malediction incumbebat eximeremur dum in
of the law fall not upon us. eum traduceret. Fides, in Christi
damnatione absolutionem,
benedictionem in maledictione,
apprehendit.
God the Father, beholding Ubi nos in filii sui communionem
us in the body of His Son Christ semel recepit, opera
Jesus, accepts our imperfect nostra grata acceptaque habet,
obedience as it were perfect. non quod ita promereantur sed
quia condonata eorum imperfectione,
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