C H A P. 2. Chrifl underwent the Cofer of the Law. 451' 'teragainf? Papift's, may alfoferve our turn againft Mr. Baxter &others: .Socinianr alfo, (as maybe Peen inSmalcüli efut. lib. de Satisf. Chrift Chap. 6. & 7. ) upon thefe fame grounds , deny , that Chrit}'s fufferings were a pro- per facisfadtion , he thereby not paying the !don , the fame, that man should have fuffered. And Socinus Pr eI. Theol. Cap. IS. fol. z.o5. faith in plaine ter - mes ., That Chritt did no way fatisfie the ;u{tice of God by his fufferings unlefs it be Paid, that he fuffered the fame things which we should have fuffered becaufe of our fins. Therefore there is a necefliity, to hold that (thrift fuffered the fanne for fubftance , that the Elea were liable to Puffer, that it may the more clearly appear, that his fufferings were indeedla Satis- .faEtion. But Mr. Baxter tels us, in the fame book (n. x49. ) that Solutionof the debt & fatisfadtitm , f richly taken, thus differ ,that Satisfaction it folutio tan - tidem , vel arquivalentis, alias indebiti. And if Chriß be fail to bave paid the very. fame duty ¿r punishment , which the Law required, heir denied to ha- ve fatisfied , for our non - payment; for a Law that is fully performedcan requi- re nomore, nor the Law-giver neishor : And therefore both Satistadtton & Pardon are shut out. 13ní. Thus we feem to be hardly ítraitned , for if we fay -, that Chritt paid the Idem, the Same , Mr. Baxter thinketh we deftroy thereby all Satisfldlion _& all Pardon , and fo yeeld the caufe to the Socinians : If upon the other hand , we fay , that Ch -ríti did not futer the Idem , we yeeld the caufe unto the Socinianr, and deny all Satisfadtion , in tber judgment; and their confequence feetneth to be as rational , as Mr. Baxter "a. But truth may be affirmed , without all hazard: And to make fuck a difference be- twixt Solution & Satisfiítion, is to play needlefly upon words,& at length will but recurre unto this , Sial,ur folvit, aliud folvitur; and fo by Paying that Chritl's Satisfadtion was alto a folutio ejufdem _, we shall deny both Satisfa- aion & Pardon or by calling it fo But , as wasfaid above , it is not fit to lay fo much weight upon the fimple ufe of atertne or word; and Cure it is limit unfit for Mr. Baxter to do fo,who on all occafions,venieth his difpleafure to much againft others, who lay fo much weight on meer termer of art , or words.. But, as to the thing, lure, the creditor will think himfelf fads-. fled, when the fame fumme, which was oweing by one, is payed by an- other for the debitor, & that in the fame fpecies of Silver, or of Gold. And if that hold., that fi 4 'Jus folvit, aliud folvitur , , Mr. Baxter may fee, that if another pay , his payment may become a Satisfadtion , becaùfe it is fo far aliud another thing, though really & upon the matter , it be the fame. And here 'tech the truth , that we afhert , Chrift paid the very fame fuffering, that we were obliged to pay.; but he being another, and not theperfons guilty themfelves, his fufferings wereitot only a folutiodebiti, a payment of our debt , but alto, as being performed by him , they were a Satirfadion to jut{ice, anclfo much the rather a compleet Satisfadtion , that they were the fame fufferings , we were liable to, & not thickly equivalent. And this ap- peareth to me the more clear from what Mr. Baxter Paid before (n. 52. & ) where he bath thefe words. [ The true reafon of the Satisfadtorienefs of Cbrif's f rff ring was., that they were a moftapt meanes for the demordration
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