" Psa. 2:12.
The work of the Spirit is to lead us into the sayings of Christ;
which, as to our redemption from death, are such as these: "I lay
down my life, that you may have life; I give my life a ransom for
many; and the bread which I give is my flesh, which I will give for
the life of the world."
The Holy Ghost breatheth nowhere so as in the ministry of this
doctrine; this doctrine is sent with the Holy Ghost from heaven.
What is the church of God redeemed by from the curse of the law? It
is by something done within them, or by something done without them.
If you say it is redeemed by something that worketh in them, then
why did the man Christ Jesus hang on the cross on Calvary, without
the gate of Jerusalem, for the sins of his children? and why do the
Scriptures say that "through this man is preached to us the
forgiveness of sins?"
The answer thou givest is, "The church of God is redeemed by Christ
Jesus who is revealed in all believers, and Christ Jesus wrought in
them mightily, and it was he that wrought in them to will and to do.
This is plain scripture; and the man Christ Jesus," sayest thou,
"hanged on the cross on Calvary because they wickedly judged him to
be a blasphemer, and through their envy persecuted him to death
because he bore witness against them, and in their account he died
and hanged on the cross an evil-doer.
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