Two Dissertations · §179 · John Davenant

Cap. 7 Theologi nostri open: Postremo — Bucerus on Matt. 1:21 elect

11. Last, our own theologians. They do not deny that Christ suffered for all, yet they also confess that in his death he redeemed the elect under a peculiar regard. Bucer states it on Matthew 1 at He shall save his people — that is, the elect whom the Father himself brings to him. By his death he expiated all the elect's sins and merited that the propitious Father give them his Spirit. So Christ's death merited something for the elect that he did not merit for others. Whatever he merited for anyone, he merited under the Father's ordination and acceptance. From that Fatherly will and ordination, then, Christ's death belongs to the elect in a special way that does not reach the rest.

Latin

11. Postremo, Theologi nostri, qui Christum pro omnibus passum non diffitentur, tamen illum in morte sua peculiari quodam intuitu electos redemisse simul profitentur: Bucerus sententiam suam expressit in Math. i. ad illa verba, Populum suum salvum faciet, Hoc est, electos, quos ipsi Pater adducit. Morte sua omnium electorum peccata expiavit, meruitque ut illis Pater propitius suum Spiritum donet. Hic videtis Christum morte sua meruisse aliquid electis quod aliis non meruit. At quicquid cuiquam meruit Christus, id meruit secundum ordinationem & acceptationem Patris sui: Ex Patris igitur voluntate & ordinatione Christi mors pertinet ad electos speciali quadam ratione, sub qua ad alios non extenditur.

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