Of the death of Chrift. i z conIlantly denies, couching in this difinEtion the xfvrev,ltssass of a great part ofhis difcourfe, certainly it is nothing at all to the quefkion I there agitated ; maintaining, that it was idem and not tantundem that Chrift paid, and fo the end of it obtained ipfo fallo, anfwerable to the kind of the efficacy and procure- ment thereof. But perhaps I do not conceive his mind aright: peradventure his mind is, that if I do maintain the fatisfa@ion of Chrift to procure the end aimed at, :pro fáio, as folutio ejufdem would have done, then to profefs himfelf my adverfary. But, (t.) This is not here exprelfed, nor intimated. (a.) It is nothing at all to me, who place the matter of the fatisfadion of Chrift, in folutione ejufdem. (3.) About the end of fatisfaftion in the place oppofed I fpeák not, but only of the nature of the penalty undergone whereby it was made. (4.) To the thing it Elf, I defire to enquire ; [e.] What Mt. B. intends by folutio ejufdem in the bufinefs in hand? Doti he not maintain it to be the offender's own undergoing the penalty of the law ? What end I pray doth this obtain ipfo falls ? Can it be any other but the glory of God's juflice in the everlafling deftrn&ion of the creature ? How then can it poffibly be fuppofed to attain the end fpeken of ipfo fallo ? If this be the only meaning of folutio ejfdem, in this fence, the end of it is diflant from the end of fatisfaftion le ieytbs is' =aò yaie, By the laying the penalty on Chrift, that God intended the freedom of thofe for whom he underwent that penalty, I fuppofe cannot be doubted : but in inililting it on the offenders themfelves, that he bathany filch aim, wants an Origen to aliere. [a.] Whether the penalty due to one, may not be undergone by another? And if fo, whether it be not the lame penalty, the idem or no ? In things real I gave an infkance before : if a man pay twenty pounds for another who owed it, cloth not he pay the idem in the obligation ? And may not this hold in things perfoüalalto ? Of the fatisfaftionof Chrift procuring its end ipfo fallo, I mean in -ifs ówei kind, for the death of Chrift mull be conlidered as meritorious, as well as f cif. faEtory, if thedeliverance be attended as the end of it, I faall (peak afterwards in its proper place. The prcfent con troverfy is no more but this; Whether Chri4 underwent the penalty threatned unto us, or Tome other thing accepted in dead thereof, by a new conftitution i Or, which is all one, whe- ther in laying our iniquities upon Chrift, the lawof God was relaxed only ág to the perlons fuffering, or alto as to the penalty fuffered? That is, whether Chrift paid the idem in the obligation, or taetundern ? To fuppofe that the idem of the obligation is not only the penalty it felf, but allo the offender's own fuffering that penalty, and then to enquire, whether Chrift underwent the idem, is to caufe an cafy enemy to triumph in his That the law was relaxed, as to the peelne fuffering, I pofttively affect ;. but as to the penalty it felt, that is not mentioned. Of theft two things alone then muff be our enquiry. (e.) Whether Chrift in making fatisfa&ion, underwent that penalty that was threatned to the offenders themfelves? (a.) Whether the penalty, though undergone by another, be not the idem of the obligation? Of both there, after the clearing of the refide..e of Mr. Baxter's exceptions. Neatly, he requireth what I intend by gracions acceptance, or rather giveth in his own fenfe cf it, in thefe words, page 138, 139. So alto God's gracious acceptance is either his accepting lft in value than wasdue, andfo remitting the refl with- out payment : this I plead not for or elfe it is his accepting ofa refufable payment, which though equal in value, yet he may chufe to accept according to the tenor of the obligation. This is gracious acceptance which Grotius maintaineth : and fo do L Thus far, he. Now neither is this any more to the bufinefs I have in hand. For, (1.) The value of any farisfaftion in this bufinefs, arileth not from the in- nate worth of the things whereby it is made ; but purely fromGod's feed confki,
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