Owen - Houston-Packer Collection BX9315 .O8 1721

Of the death of Chrifi. 9 So alfo, God's gracious acceptance, is either in accepting left in - alue .than was due; and fo remitting the refl without payment (thii Iplead not for) or elfe it is his accepting a refutable payment, which thoughequal in value, yet he may chufe to accept according to the tenor of the obligation. This is gracious acceptance which Grotius maintainnh : and fo do I ; andfo dißingu hetwixt folutio, and fatisfa&io, payment and fatisfa&ion. ,Thus far he. Sundry things are here imagined, and äferced : Fall, Several paffagesare pointed at in my treatife, and a conrradiftion between them intimated. Second- 1y, Various conje&ures given at my plain, very plain meaning, and divers things obje&ed anfwerable to thofe conte&ures, d?c. 1. Wherefore to clear the whole, I fhall give you in the pafages oppofed, and, z. Vindicate them from mutual oppofition, with what is befides charged on them. The firft place mentioned in my treatife is in page 137. where after I haddif- courfed of the nature of fatisfa&ion, in reference both unto things real and per- fonal, I laid down adihin&ion in thefe words : " There may be a twofold fätisfa&ion F;fl, By a folution or payment-of the very thing that is in the obligation ; either, by the party himfelf who is " bound, or byfome other in his Read : as if I owe a man twenty pounds, and " my friend goeth and payeth it, my creditor is fully fatisfied. Secondly, By a fo- " lution .. or payingof fo much, although in another kind, not the fame that is in- " the obligation, which by the creditor's acceptation Rands in lieu of it : upon " which alto freedom foljoweth from the obligation, by virtue of an aft of " favour. What now, rays M. B. to this ? why, it is nothing to the bufinefs he hash in hand. Let then this pals, and look to the next pelage, which is oppofed, and fhp- poled to fiand in oppofition to the other. Having laid down the formerdifiin&ion, puffing on to fome other things con- cerning the nature of fatisfaftion, and the effablifhment of that of Chrift from the Scripture, in page r4ó, I apply that diflinftica laid down before in general, to the kind of fatisfaftion made by Chrift, in theft words : " Whereas I Paid that there is a twofold fatisfa&ion,whereby the debtor is freed " from the obligation, that is upon him; the one being folutio jufdem, payment of the fame thing that was in the obligation : the other foliate tantidem, of that " which is not the fame, nor equivalent unto it; but only in the gracious ac- " eeptation of the creditor : it is worth our enquiry, which of theft it was ." that our Saviour did perform." And accordinglyI refer it to the flit. lhis, faith Mr. B. is a (toting of the queflion far otherwife than before, yet fuppofmg it the fame. But this I was fo far from once miftrufting before, as that being informed of it, I cannot as yet apprehend it to be fo. In page 137 I lay down a diflinftion in general about the feveral kinds of fa- tisfaçiion,- which page 140 I plainly apply to the fatisfadion of Chrift, without any new, much lefs changed fluting of thequeftion. My whole aim in that ens quiry, was to fearch out that -kind of punilhment, which Chrift underwent in making fatisfaftionfor fin, viz.." Whether it were the fame that was thteatnedto " the tranfgreffors themfelves, or whether fomething elfe whichGod accepted in " lieu thereof, relaxing the law, not only as to the perfon fuffering, but alto " as to the penalty tobe undergone ? The firft of thefe, and that with the concurrent.fufrage of far the greateft number of protelftant divines, I afiert with fundry arguments, page 141, 142, &c. 154, 155, 156, Ünto which afertion, he neither oppofeth himfelf, not onto attempteth to anfwer any of the arguments whereby I proved it. This being my intendment, page 137, I intimate that Chrift paid the fame thing that was in the obligation, as if in things real a friend lhould pay twenty pounds for him that owed fo much, and not any thing in another kind : and. page 14o I affirm that he paid Idem, that is, the fame thing that was in the obli- gation; and not tantundem, fomething equivalent thereunto, in another kind. NIof theft is nothing to our purpofe, faith Mr. B. but the latter trolling the former. But

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