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Ha, friend, I had thought thou hadst not been so much hardened. Art
thou not ashamed thus to slight the death of the man Christ Jesus on
the cross, and reckon it not effectual for salvation, but sayest,
the church is redeemed by Christ Jesus who is revealed within? and
to confirm it, thou dost also corruptly bring in this scripture:
"Whereunto I labor, according to his working which worketh in me
mightily; "by which words Paul signifies, that as God was with him
in the ministry of the word, so did he also strive according to his
working which wrought in him mightily. What is this to the purpose?
That thy answer is false, I shall clearly prove. First, because thou
deniest that redemption was wrought out for sinners by the man
Christ Jesus on the cross on Calvary; when the scripture says
plainly, that when he did hang on the tree, then did he bear our
sins there in his own body. And secondly, in thy saying it is
redeemed by Christ within, by being within, when the work of the
Spirit of Christ in believers is to make known to the soul, by
dwelling within, which way and how they are redeemed by the man
Christ Jesus on the cross. And this I prove further, because when
thou art forced to answer to these words, Why did the man Christ
Jesus hang en the cross, on Calvary for the sins of his children?
thou sayest, "Because they wickedly judged him to be a blasphemer.
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