Q: What did the crucified Christ purchase for his people?
A: "The Holy Ghost immediately communicates to us the thing purchased by communicating himself, and he is the thing purchased. The sum of all that Christ purchased for man was the Holy Ghost. . . . What Christ purchased for us, was that we have communion with God in his good, which consists in partaking of the Holy Ghost. . . . All the blessedness of the redeemed consists in their partaking of Christ's fullness, which consists in partaking of that Spirit which is given not by measure unto him (Jonathan Edwards, "Discourse on the Trinity," Works, vol. 21, Yale, p. 136).
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