We place in the School, for the most part, the infinite merit of Christ Jesus ... rather in pacto than in persona, rather that this contract was thus made between the Father and the Son, than that whatsoever that person, thus consisting of God and Man, should do, should, only in respect of the person, be of an infinite value and extension to that purpose, &c.
O, this is sad misty divinity! far too scholastical for the pulpit, far too vague and unphilosophic for the study.
Ib.
p. 180. A.
Quis nisi infidelis negaverit apud inferos fuisse Christum? says St. Augustine.
Where?
Pearson expressly asserts and
that the clause was in none of the ancient creeds or confessions. And even now the sense of these words,