8 Of the death of Chrtf. difpenfation of the love of God to his eleft through Chrifl, with the relation of the_eleht in feveral conditions, unto the feveral aetings of God in that difpenfation fuccinf ly laid down. The accommodation alto of all delivered, to many weigh- ty controverfes, I have added. If the way of handlingthefe things here ufed be blamed by any, I hope the judicious will fee, that it is fuels as the matter it fell will bear. There hale not beenmany things in my whole enquiry after the mind of God in his word, which have more exercifed my thoughts, than the right ordering, and diftind difpofal of thofe whereof we treat ; if the Lord hatde difcovered any thing unto me, or madeout any thing by me, that may be for the benefit of any of his, I fhall rejoyce; it being- always in my delire, that all things might fall out to the advantage of the Gofpel: and fo I addrefs my fell to the matter be- fore me. CHAP. IL. An c;;tfttnct fnto the whole; of the nature of the payment made by Chrift, with the. right Rating of the things in difference. d , R. Baxter having compofedhis Aphorifms of yuflification, with their explications: before the publifhing of them in print, he commu- ,sidated them (as fhould appear) to fome of his near acquaintance unto Tome things in them,contained, one of his Paid friends gives an fome exceptions ; amongfl other things he oppofed unto thofe Aphorifms, he alto pointsat my contrary judgment in one or two particulars, with my-reafons produced for the confirmation thereof. This pro- vekeeh their learned author (though unwilling) to turn aide to the confedera- dun of thofe reafons. Now the firfl of thofe particulars being about the pay- ment made for fee, in the blood of Chrill, of what fort, and kind it is : I lhall . willingly carry-on the enquiry to this further iffue, whereunto I am drawn out. r. Ile looks upon the Elating of thequeftion, as I profeffedly laid it down at my entrance into that difputatron, and declares;. that it is nothing at all to the queflion he hash inhaled, Or looking that way. He dJinguifheth, faith Mr. Baxter, betwixtpaying thevery thing that is in the .obliga- tion, and paying fo mush in another kind: now this nnot our queflion, nor any thing to it, Append. p. 137 .If it be fo, I know no reafon why I was plucked in to the following difpute, nor why Mr. Baxter íhould call away fo many pages of his book, upon that Which- is nothing at all to the bufinefs he had in hand. But though there be no- thing to this purpofe, page t3y. of my book, theplace he was fent to, yet p, r4o. there is : as alto fomething contrary to what is exprelfed in the former place, Which he intimates in thefe words Inpage 14o. he flares the queflionfar otherwife, and yet fuppofeth it the fame, viz. Whether Chr f paid the ideas, or the taetundem ? which he interpreteth ohm, that which is not the fame, tor equivalent unto it, but only in the gracious acceptation of the Credi- tor t. nowwhat he means_by not equivalent I cannot tell. r. If he mean not of equal value then he fights with a fhadow. He wrongeth Grotius, t*ought' l' can find in him, who teacheth no fesch Doftrine: however. I do not fo of to Eglifh folutio tantidem.. But if he mean that it is not equivalent, in procuring in its etid ipfo fako, delivering the debtor, without the intervention of a new mncegion or con- trail of the the creditor, at folutio ejufdem doth, then I confefr Grotius is againf Ito, end fo am L. Se
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