d 2 Of the death of Chrift. confitution of them to loch an end. A difinEtion cannot be allowed of more or lofs value in the things appointed of God for the fame end ; all their value arifethmerely from that appointment : they have fo much as he aferibeth to them, and no more. Now neither idem nor taniundem are here fatisfaftory, but by virtue of divine confitution : only in tantundem I require a peculiar ac- ceptance to make it equivalent to idem in this bufnefs, that is, as to fatisfahlioni or, if'you pleafe, an acceptance of that which is not idem, to make it a tan- tundem. So that this graciosas acceptance, is not an accepting of that which is lefs in value than what is in the obligation, but a free confitution appointing another thing to the end, which before was not appointed. (x.). He fuppofeth me ( if in fo many milakes of his, I milakc hint not). to deny all gracious acceptance where the idem is paid, in the prefentcafe, is to of-. feet it uecefàry, becaufe not paid per eundem t yea and that otherperfon not procured by the debtor, but graciouly afflgned by thecreditor. (3.) To make up his graciosas acceptance in his latter fenfe, he difinguifheth of payments refutable, and not refúfable ; in the application of which diftinétion unto the payment made by Chrif, I cannot clofe with him. For, a payment is refu- table either abfolutcly and in it felf, or upon fuppofal. The death of Chrif{ confidered abfolutely and in it felf, may be fatd to be refutable as to be made a payment ; not a refutable payment : and that, not becaufe not refutable, but becaufe not a payment. Nothing can poffibly tend to the procurement and corn- patting of any end by the way of payment, with the Lord, but what is built upon fome free compafl, promife, or obligation of his own. But now confider it as an iffue flowing from divine confitution, making it a payment, and fo it was no way refutable, as to the compafling of the end appointed. Thus alfo, AS to the obligation of the law, for the fulfilling thereof, it was refutable in re- fpeet of the perfon paying, not in refpe& of the payment made : that former re- fpe& being alfo taken offby divine conititntion, and relaxation of the law as to that, it becometh wholly unrefufable : that is, as it was paid it was fo ; for fa- tisfaflion was made thereby upon the former fuppofals of confitution and re- lanat+a r. (q.) ISoth not Mr. B. fuppofe, that in the very tenor of the obligation there is required a folution, tending to the fame end as fatisfa&ion doth ? Nay, is not that dCaoyía the m; 7,s4.eti of this difcourfe ? Deliverance is the aim of fatisfa&ion, which receives its fpring and being from the confitution thereof. But is there any filch thing as deliverance once aimed at, or intended in the te- nor of the obligation ? I feppotc no. (5.) Neither is the dilin&ion of jlurio and faticfatlio, which Mr. B. clofeth withal, of any weight in this bufnefs; unlefs it would hold lass xù 7141,7% which it will not, and fo is of no ufe here. For, [t.] There is Patio tanridem, as well as ejufdem, and therein confifs fatisfa- Ilion according to Mr. B. [a.] Whether fatisfa&iou be inconflent with folutio ëjufdem, but not per eau- dem is the ri atssgsec,e. After all this Mr. B. adds, Tet here Me. Owen eaters the LiIt with Grotius. Where I pray ? I might very jufly make enquiry from the beginning to the ending of this difcourfe, to find out what it is, that this word here, particu- larly anfwereth unto. But to avoid as much as poffible all Seife of words, I defire the reader to view the controverfy agitated between Grotius andmyfelf, not as here reprefented by Mr. Baxter, fo changed by a new drefs, that I might jolly refute to take any acquaintance with it, but as by myfelf laid down in the laces excepted againf ; and he will quickly find it to be, (r) Not whether the law were at all relaxed, but whether it were relaxed as well in refpe& of the penalty to be fuf Bred, as of the perfon flittering : that is, whether God be only a ream, or a re&or and creditor alter in this bufnefs? Which controverfy by the way, is fo confufedly propofed, or rather lrangely handled by Mr. B. page 145, where he ' adjudges me in a . fucceflefs affault of Grotius, as makes it evident he never once perufed it. (a.) Noefecondly, whether there be ally need of God's gracious acceptance in this bufnefs, or no ; for I affert it necefary as before defcribed in reference to folutio ejufdem, fish non per eundem. Nei- (3)
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