and oral Works. his Fence , Suretifhip your liberty of words changeth not the cafe. 3. There is a Surety who payeth the Debt in the name andperfon of the principal Debtor ; ( And he is not properly calleda surety, but an Agent or subftiiUte :) AndChrift wasnone fuch ; nor isanyproper Surety fuch. And there is a surety which, by the Creditors confent, Both pay the Debt in his own name, agreeing that the chief Debtor (hall have no be- nefit by it but from him, as he (hall give it, on certain terms : And this was Chrifi's cafe. 4. There is a Surety that payeth the fame debt that wasdue from the Principal : And there is a surety or Friend that under- taketh only tomake the Creditor fatisfaEiion, becaufe the Debtor can- not pay. And this is thecafe. 5. Laftly, There is apay-matter thatis the Debtors Infirument, whether servant, Delegate, or whoever at his command or requett doth pay it in his name andperfon : And this is not the cafe. And there is a proper Surety, who is a third perfon and no Infirument, and payeth it in his own name though for, another. This, as I Paid, isthe cafe; and therefore it is not we that paid it. Therefore to the Objection I fay, that to jùdgeChrift fuch an Infru- ment orDelegate of ours, or surety that did all in our legal perfon ; is to misjudge and err as is proved, which God cannot do. 144. Chrift did and filtered in the commonnature of man, thoughnot in the perfon of each Sinner. And mans nature is fo far redeemed by him, that for the meer Original Sinof nature alone, noman (hall perith, unlefsheadd the rejection ofGrace; (of which fomewhat is faid be- fore.) But yet asNature exifteth only inperfon, fo it is allperfons, who have this much benefit and more. But that he merited and fatisfied in our Nature , is a proper fpeech, and truer than that he did it in our perfon,. i çq.But allthis fimilitude ofa Creditor and Debtor,is to be limited in theapplication, according to thegreat differenceof sin and Debt, which will infer agreat diverfty in the confequents ; which may eafily becol- lected by theReader. 146. As to the great and weighty queftion, whether Chrift died for How far Chrift died for fins againft the New Covenant, or only for thole againft the old : I an- iio5 againtt the Law of fwer, Diftinction is here notorioufly neeeffary: i. If by theold Cove- nant, Grace. or fìrft Covenant, you mean the conditionalPromife, [Be perfelt andlive ] no fin finrycee Adam's is againft that conditional Promife, becaufe it ceafed throughtitans incapacity, upon theFall 5 And Chrift died not only for the frf fin. 2. If by the frfi Covenant you mean, the bare command ofperfelS perpetual obedience, Chrift died for fins againft that command which is ítí11 in force, but notas a Covenant of Life givenon that condition. 3. If by the firfi Covenant, you mean the punitive part of the Law of Innocency, laying , [Thou fhalt die if thou obey not perfectly.] So Chrift died forall our sins in the f ridieft fenfe , even as we are con- demnable for themby that Law. And that part alfo ofthe Law conti- nueth tomake punifhment our due in primo inftanti, though withan ad- joyned remedy. ç. If by the New Covenant , you mean the meer preceptive part of Chrift's fupernaturallyrevealedLaw, or of the forefaid Law of Nature, as in the hands of Chrift, fo Chrift died forfins againft the Lawof Chr. 2. Ifby the New Covenant or Law youmean, thePromifeand Threaten- ingof' Chrifis Law, oreither; fo Sin may be Paid tobe againft them in two feules : i. Objettively, as they arene$leEtedbyus: And fo that Sin formally is only againft the Precept, and Chrift died for it. 2. Or as the K2 Sin
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=