( 290 ) quires.Tt is Suppliciumigins`Delinquentis. The Lawnever threat= ned a Surety : Nor granteth any liberty of fubititution : that was an Aft of God as Above the Law. If therefore the thing due were paid , it was we our felves Morally or Legally that fuf- fered : and it could not be our felves Legally, becaufe it was not our felves Naturally. But if it had been our felves legally, then the ftrideft, uftice could not have denyed us a prefent and per. feex Dliverance ipio flao feeing no Jufticecan demand more then the Idem quaddebitur, the whole debt of Obedience or Pu- nahment. And that all may take heed of this unhappy model of Theolo, gie that thefe men have framed , I would earneftly commend to their Confideration this followingadvice. i. Still keep in your minds a clear Diftinaion between Gods Redoral or Legiflative Will determiningde Debito,officil premii, pcence : and his Will de rerum exitentia Eventts as limb, de- termining defaflo what fhall be, and what not; Or between Gods Decrees and his Laws. And take heed of confounding thefe in any point of Theologie much more in the whole frame. For ought 1 fee, Gods Eternal Decree is the beginning middle and end of the Antinomians Theologie ; It is almoft their AIL 2. Diftinguifb carefully between that Decree, Law or Cove- nant, call it which you will , whereby the Father did, as it were appoint unto his Son both his work and Reward ; and that Law, or Covenant by which both Father and Son do Govern the Church and make over to us the parts of our falvation. Con- founding thefe bath loft the Antinomians in their Theologie : fo that fo much ofGods Covenants as they do take notice of,is little more then the Promife of the Father to the Son, and the Abfo- lute difcovery of his Decree. They reduce almoft all the Co- venants to this, and denominateall from this. And the very nature of the Thing, as well as the plain Scri- pture, proclaimeth to us this great Truth, which once more I in- treat all men that read this well to confider of. / That;, As it was not the/inner bimfelf, nor any Servant ar Dele- gateof his, but Chrill the Mediator upon Gods Mifsion andhis vo- luntary Sponfion , Who bore the Penalty , and madefatiefatlion to god fo it Was meet that thefruits ofthisfatisfaa7ion lhouldnot be deliveredby God immediately to thefanner a but limner,: andall into the
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