The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their efficient, working instrumentally with power by the word and ordinances.
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Jesus did not die just to save you from hell. He paid the price to give you all of heaven.
The specific sufferings of Jesus do not amount to redemption: rather, redemption is wrought through the uniqueness of the person who suffered and the perfect charity for which, in which and by which he suffered. The uniqueness of the suffering of Christ, then, lies in the pro knobs, which is bound to the freedom through which the Son endures __very human suffering_ on account of love. To say that Jesus endured __very human suffering_ does not mean that he specifically suffered every thing that every person ever did or could suffer, but the he __ums up_ in this Passion the suffering so fate world, mystically including them in his own suffering and recapitulating them in the form of perfect love. The whole weight of this psychological and physical dereliction of humanity is, in Christ, suffered and sorrowed now within God himself, in the sense that the human sufferings of Christ are __ne_ with the divine filial relation that constitutes his unity with the Father.