450 .Chrt' uudertperat the Cur fe of the Law. -C H A P. z anent, which juppared real faultinefs, could fall on Chrifi , as the torment of an accuiing con feience , for refeEting d7 of nding God , for calling away our own fe- licity drrunning into bell &c. the fenfeof God's hatred of us , real (inners. Anf, All this is granted , but thefe belonged only to the punishment as infliáted'on the finner &tranfgreifour himfelf, but did not belong to its eirence & fob - flance abltraEtly confidered, & fo could not accompany the fame , as infli- 41ed upon one, who was in himfelf wholly free of all fin. And this is yet more manifeft in that which he mentioneth. S. Saying much left the Defer- tionsot the Spirit ofholinefs, to left without goodnefs, in a ft ate of fin, dr to bate God for his ju flice holinef which will be the datnneds café; far there did not belong to the eflence & fubftance of the punishment , threatned in the Law; but were only confequents thereof, as iniiiCtted on finnersinhe- rently. V/ e do not fay, that Chrift fúffered , what the damned do fuffer, .or that he was in the damneds cafe. Thús , though we make them not of the fame kind with all that the damned do faffer; Yet without any blind zeal (as he is pleated to cenfure ) we may fay , that Ch riff tattered the fame cur- ie & death, that was threatned in the Law properly , as a punishments, as to fubftance; and yet no way be guilty of intollerable blafpl,eming of our Saviour. The fame anfwer may ferve to that, which he faith (n. so.) Nor could Chrif!'r fufferings be equal in degree, intenfively dr exrenfivly to all that war defevved by the world as is eaf,-1y difèernable by perufing what .is ,now faid , feing nttr deferved fuffering lay in things of frith a nature, veto be left in fin itfelf, de- Jítitute of God's.image & love & cammunion , under his hatred , tormented in confcience , befides the ever - failing torments in hell , which are more'than there, upon all the millions of ftnners, tíiichwercredeemed. This is already anfwered ; & it is not demonftrated , that all thefe confequents & concomi. tants of the punishment,, as infliited on fuch as were (inners inherently , did properly belong to the effence & lubftance of the punishment threatned , in :atfelf confidered; A 'd of this we only (peak, for as to this, we only fay, that Çhrift fuffered /be fame. If two men be condemned to pay, ,each a thoufand pounds , which none of them are well able to do , & a rich man un- dertaketh topay the fumme for one of the two, that rich man may well be faid to have payed the fame fumme , that the poor man was obliged to pay though his paying of that fumme be not attended with Inch confequents & ,circum(tances , as it would have been , if the poor man himfelf had been put to pay it_, or as.the other poor man findeth it, who is made to pay it; in the poor man it is neceffarily attended with poverty to himfelf & all his family, tat poffibly he & alibis muft be fold for flavesto make up the fumme; but the rich man can pay it without any inch concomitants, or confequents, & yet be Paid to have payed the fame fumme. It is to be obferyed , that Papifis & tome others ate all thefe fame argu- ments to prove, that Chrift did not fufferagy thing of the penalty of fin in bis foul , as may be particularly feen in Parker de defcen fu lib 1. But Mr. Bax. ter granteth ( n. 5t .) that Chrift did fuller more in foul , than in bod' : And vet what anfwers are made by Parker & other reformed divines, in this mat- ter ,
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