( 273) Oh). Had we paid or performed it in our own perfons then we ist had needed no pardon, but feeingChrift paid it for us, itmuft be Soh inus Exofef. Are pardoned to us, though not tohim. fg. Aug . t. Aurty. This is very true; and the ordinary Doctrine of Pro- 4.p. 9.,0m, teflants, yea of Scripture.. But then obferve, that this affirmeth, nistiT oitmittri- that we paid it not in ourown perfons. And this mull be true, perfon in a civil fenfe, or Law fenfe, as well as a natural : That f°,1:dtid"theeetiti.urs Debt which a man paies by hisfervant or other Delegate,he paies Lie is folvat himfelf. It was done by his perfon in Moral, Civil, or Law. fenfe; gm, de,et, five though not by his natural perfon. It being therefore the Action alims pre co. of Laws ( or according to Laws ) that we have to fpeak of , it muff be a Legal perfon that we mutt fpeak of. If therefore Chrift had fo Merited, or fatisfied in your perfon, and you in and by his, that Reputatively the Law, or Lawgiver, did judge it the Idem, andnot only the c,'Equivalens and did efteem the perfon the fame and judge you to have merited or fatisfied in Chrift , then no Juitice could deny you prefent Juftification or Abfolution without further pardon : thoughthe natural perfon ofChrift and us was not the fame. But indeed it could not be, that Chrift paid the Idem , the fame that was due in Law : For that was fupplicium ipfisos Deliquentir, and not of another : Nor could it be that you should merit or fatisfie Legally in Chrift, he doing it in your perfon. For though in payment of debts to a Creditor ( which is not our cafe ) the Law admitteth payment by a Delegate, and taketh the perfon as the fame, looking only at the Debt (for what a mans Inftrument doth, himfelf doth) yet in cafe of Obedience and PuniChment, the Law determineth ofthe perfon, as well as the thing due , and alloweth not a Delegation,or doing or fuffering by an Inftruments, or in the natural perfonof another : and therefore dam alitts fcls vit, fimul aliudfolvitur. And though God as Recior, japra Legem, as above Law, doth in our cafe, allow and Accept of a Sponfor, and kind of fabfti- tute of punifhment, viz,. that Chrlit fbould fuller in our(lead ; yet not as in our perfon, fo as we do Morally or Reputatively fa- tisfie or merit in or by him but in the perfon ofa Mediator ; that his Sacrifice, Satisfadion, Merit, may be a valuable Confiderati- on, onwhich God may pardon our fins, in his time and on terms agreeable to his honor and ends of Government. I take this to N n be
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