1 Peter 3:18
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- #HC16 Why must He be a true and righteous man? He must be a true man because the justice of God requires that the same human nature which has sinned should pay for sin. He must be a righteous man because one who himself is a sinner cannot pay for...
- #AOC16 Wherefore is it necessary that he be very Man, and that perfectly just too? Because that the Justice of God requireth that the same humane nature which hath sinned, do it self likewise make recompence for sin: but he that is himself a sinner, cannot make recompence for others...
- #AOC17 Why must he also be very God? That he might by the Power of his Godhead sustain in his flesh the burthen of God’s wrath, and might recover and restore unto us that Righteousness and Life which we lost.
- #BC26 What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer? Christ as our Redeemer executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.
- #AOC36 What believest thou when thou sayest he suffered. That he all the time of his life which he lead in the Earth, but especially at the end thereof, sustained the wrath of God, both in body and soul, against the sin of mankind, that he might by his pass...
- #HC37 What do you confess when you say that He suffered? During all the time He lived on earth, but especially at the end, Christ bore in body and soul the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race. Thus, by His suffering, as the only atoning sac...