44g chriJl underwent the Core of the Lauv. C x A P. z; jaßice could not have denied us a prefent dd perfelf deliverance ipfo fado, feinp no juJlice can demand more, than the idem quod debitur ( rather dehetur ) the whole debt of obedience or punishment. Anf. But what if ourfelves , in our own natural perfons, had undergone the penalty , had we therefore ipfòfa1oát- tamed a perfe &deliverance ? It will be confeffed , I fuppofe, that all that underlye this punishment, underlye it for : how then doth their legal' fuffering the idem helpe them ? If it be faid , that they muff eternally fuller, becaufe never able to fuffer fo , as to make fatisfaftiorf: Yet HI it is obvious, that their undergoing the idem in their own perfons naturally., doth not ad- vantage them , as to a prefent & perfect deliverance ipfo fafio, or ever -at all. And where is then the truth of this axiome ? Or where is its pertinency to our purpofe ? When a man ispunished.with death according to the Law, 'is he ipfo fatilo prefently & perfetly delivered ? It feeiret.h then that the paving of the Idem , yea , or thetantundrm by another perfon, is more ef- f ctual for their liberation , than theirpayingof the Idem in their own per- f ms. And againe the Law , in many cafes granteth liberation , even when the Idem in Mr. Basctersfenfe is payed, that is, when another payeth down the farne : Yea & likewife if the Creditor be fatisfied , when another thing is payed : So that neither part of this affertion holdall true , univer- fally. But yet fome may fay ; That if the Idem or the very fame, were payed by Chrift, our liberation should immediatly follow. I Anf. It will not follow; for if we , in our own perfons , had made full payment of that debt of fuffe- ring ( which is impoffible to be done in time ) it might be granted , that a&uall liberation would immediatly follow = but when we did not this , in our own perfons ; but Chrift made full payment of what the Law could de- mand by way of punishment, or threatned, torus.; it will tot follow, that our deliverance should immediatly follow thereupon : and the reafon ishe- r saute it was filch a paying of the Idem , as was refufable , and as God him - felf provided out of wonderful love & free grace; and was accorded unto by a mutual compact, according to the free & wife Conditions of which the benefices were to be given our. Mr. Baxter in /I's Cash. Theol. part. 2. n. h, the Very nature e Reafon of the Satisfaétorinefs ofChrift's Ju f rings war not hi being the very fame either in . kind, or in degree, which were due to all for whom he fufJired. Whence we fee , that he denieth. that Chrift uffered the fame, either in kind, or in de- ree,that was due by the Law to thofe for whom he fufhered. His reafon, why they could not be the fame, which was due by the Law, he giveth (n. 49.) is the fame we heard before vit. The Law made it due to the finner. hienfelf. Which notwithfianding, it might be the fame both as to kind °ree, which Chrift fuffered, that the Law made due; the fubftitution of a new perfon , that:the Law did not provide , altereth not the punishment either as to kind , or as to degree. He addeth : and anothers fffering for him fulfilleth not the Law ( which never faid either thou , or another for thee shall die) but only Jàtisf eth the Law - giver , as he is above his own Law d? could difpenfc utiohir , his juftice being fatis fled dr faved, dum alias folvit, aliud folvitur. Anf,
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