Archive for July 28th, 2009
Christ bore our sins (sample):
1) Whereupon Paul doubts not to say that God has already set us with Christ in the heavenly places [Eph. 2:6.], so that we do not by a bare hope only look to heaven, but are already posses of it in Christ, who is our head, who making full satisfaction for our sins in that earthly and bodily pledge, which he took for us, has now taken possession of heaven in our name. Jeremias Bastingius, An Exposition or Commentary Vpon the Catechisme of Christian Religion, which is taught in the Schooles and Churches both of the Low Countries, and of the Dominions of the Countie Palatine (Printed at London by Iohn Legatt, Printer to the University of Cambridge, 1614), 195-196. [Marginal references cited inline; some reformatting; some spelling modernized; and underlining mine.]
2) Surely he himself knew better then we how we were to be instructed unto salvation, and therefore meant to prevent this superstition, and gave us the Scripture [ 2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19.] , and the lively preaching of the Gospel to direct us in his service: Therein it is taught that Christ died to bear our curse upon the cross, to satisfy for our sins by the sacrifice of his body, and to wash them away by his blood, finally, to reconcile us unto God the Father: to what purpose then was it to have everywhere in Churches so many crosses set up, of word, of stone, of silver and gold: the Gospel, and in a manner crucified before our eyes, and by hearing and reading of the Scripture, and meditation in the word, and by the use of the Sacraments, we might learn more, than out of a thousand crosses of wood or stone. Jeremias Bastingius, An Exposition or Commentary Vpon the Catechisme of Christian Religion, which is taught in the Schooles and Churches both of the Low Countries, and of the Dominions of the Countie Palatine (Printed at London by Iohn Legatt, Printer to the University of Cambridge, 1614), 427. [Marginal references cited inline; some reformatting; some spelling modernized; and underlining mine.]
3) 2. There is ground therefore being laid of our humbling before God, Christ teaches how we may be delivered from the guiltiness of our sins and from the punishment, whereas we are by no means able to satisfy God ourselves’ to wit, by forgiveness alone, which is the pardon of God’s free mercy, when he himself does freely cross out these debts, that is, sins, and imputes not the punishment thereof unto us, taking no recompense at our hands, but of his own mercy making satisfaction to the himself in Christ, who did deliver himself once for all for a recompense, and shed his blood for us…