444 Chriff underwent the Ctrr fe of the Lau?. 'CHAP ^salty of fin hereunto man was liable, did occafion their fuffering , or being . fubjeted to vanity [Zorn. S: 20, 21:. Thus our whole Redemption is fubver- ted , & the caufe yeelded unto the wicked Sòcinians , for if this be fo , Chrift had not our fins laid upon him , he did not Beare our fins in his body on the tree , he was not wounded for our tranfgreflìons, the chaftifement of our peace was not on him ; He was not made fin for us. He was not our Cautio ner &High Prieft ; He died nor in our room & Read. Againez. ( faith he ) ( fotne what more properly ) Chrifl maybe faid to ha- ve f of red the Curfe of the Law , becaufe the things , which he Pilfered were of the fame nature a kinde ( at leafl in part ) with here things , which God intended by the Curfe of the Law. Anf, Though this feemeth to come nigher to the truth , than the former ; Yet it cannot give full fatisfaEtion , until! it be explained , what that part, is. in refpe 1 of which , only Chrift's fufferings were of the fame Nature & kinde , with what the Law threatned. Let us hear therefo- re what followeth , & fee if thence fatisfadion can come. But if by the Curfe ( faith he ) ofthe Law , we under /land either that entire fyfleme ds hiflorical body ( as it were ) of penalties d r evils , which the Law iticiftntends intheterme 3 or slfe include (T take -in the intent of the Law , ar touching the quality of the perfons,. upon whom is was to be executed ; in neither of thefe Jsnfes, did Chrif? Juffer the Curfe of the Law. Anf. (t) This Both not explaine to us , what that part is , in which Chrift fuflerings are of the fame Nature & kind , with what was in- tended by the Curfe of the Law. (z.) There is need of explication here , to make as underftand , what is that entire Syfleme & Hifloricai body of penalties & evils , which the Law itfelf intends in the terme Curfe , or death :. for this is but to explaine one dark thing by what is more dark ; & fo can give no Sa- tisfaótion. (s.) But if the alternative added be explicative , & fo the two par- ticulars here mentioned be one & the fame ; then we deny , that that doth. properly belong to the effence of the penalty , as threatned in the Law : that- every thing that neceflarily attended the punishtnetnt, as inflided on man , did not di redly & effentially belong thereunto, as threatned by the Law,. fuck as the everlaltingnefs of death , defpaire , & the like necetffarily accompanying this punishment infli &;;d on (inners ; fo that notwithhanding: Ctirift did not, neither could , endure thefe accidental & confequential evils ; Yet he both did & might be faid to fuffer the Curie & death threatned by the Law, which is to be abítraded from what floweth not from the Law itfelf, but meerly from the Nature of the fubje& , or Condition of the fin - ner punished. But it may be, theft words of his, the intent of the Law , as couching the quality of the per fonr, upon whom it was to be executed, have force otheritnport, & that he meaneth , hereby no more but this, that the in- tent of the Law was, that the finner should fuffer : And indeed if fo, it was impoffible, that Chrift's fufferings could anfwere the intent of the Law : But we have faid above, that as to this, the Law was difpenfed" with; & yet notes withftanding Chrift the fabiliture Sufferer did fuffer the fame kinde of pu- nishment,_ that the Law threatned under the termes of Death & Curfe. What headdeth Further can give no Satisfaction. So that God (faithhe) required The death d9" fufferings of Cbrifl not that the Law properly either in the letter or in- 41.
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