Of the death of Chrifi. 13 3.). Neither thirdly, whether the fatisfa&ion of Chrift confidered abfolutelyc and in flatta divifo, and materially, be refutable, which I confidered not, orbe unrefufable,' fuppofing the divine conlfitution, which Grotius, as I take it, de- livered not himfelf in. Nor, q..) About the value of thepayment of Chrift in reference to acceptance ; but merely, as I faid before, whether_ the Lord appointing an endofdeliverance, neither intimated nor couched in the obligation, nor any of its attendencies,.conflituting a way far the attainment of that end, by receiving fatisfa$ion to the obligation, did appoint that the thing in the obligation fhould be paid though by another, or elfe fame new thing that of it felt, and by it felf, never was in the obligation, either before or after its folution e as the payment made by Chill mull be granted fuch, unlefs it were for Alliance the fame which the Ian, required. And here, with molt divines, I. maintainthe fir/l, viz. That the law was relaxed in refpe& of the perfon fuffering, but executed in refpe& of the, penalty fuffered : relaxation and execution are not in this bufinefs oppofed ¿tabs, but only nerd rt. 14e.that would this further affirmed, may confult what I wrote of it in the'place oppofed, 'which is not once moved by any thing here fpoken to the contrary. By the way obferve, I fpeak only of the penalty of the law, and the paffive righteoufnefs of Chriff,-ftri&ly fo called : for his alive righteoufnefs or obe- dience to the law (though he did many things we were not,obliged unto, for the manifellation of himfelf, and confirmationof the de&rive of the Gofpel) that it was the very idem of us required, I.fuppofe' none . -can doubt. What place that salve righteoufnefs of Chrift hath, or what is its ufe in our juftification; i do not now enquire, being unwilling to immix myfelf unneceffarily in any tontroverfy, though I cannot but fuppofe that Mr. B. his difcourfe hereabouts gives advantage enough, even Minorum gentians' 7heologis,. to ordinary Divines, as he calls them, to deal with him in it. r` ir .c.`.-á:`.%yÂ\...``á `.i'R-`.f0a3 `ä. AY'f' iJ.ldJ:3:e3ïi.' C HAP. 3IT. The arguments of Grotius, andtheirdefence by Mr. Baxter, about the penalty undergone by Chrift in making fati.riastioh, confidered. H E ltaee of the queflion in hand being as above laid down, let us now fee what Mr. Baxter his judgment is of my fuccefs in that un- dertaking : concerning which, he thus delivereth himfelf; Yet here M. Owen enrol they with Grotius, and, Fiat. He over-looketh his greatefla'rguments. Secondly, He /lightly anfwereth only two. . Thirdly, clad when he hathdone,-.he faith as Grotius doth, and yieldeth thewhole .Canje.,, '1-hf three things Iwillmake appear in order. Append. pag. 139. A molt unhappy iflùe as can poilihly be imagined, made up of deceit, weak- .nefs,and felf-contradi&ion: But how is-all this proved ? To make the firlf thing appear, he produceth the argument over looked. The chiefargument of Grotius and Voffius, faith he, is drawn from the tenor of the ,vbligatiöit, and from the event. The obligation ehargech pufiment on the ofender, him- felf: It faith, In the day thoutatei, thou /halt die. And curfed is every one that continnerh not in all things, en. Now if the fame in the obligation be paid then the law is executed, and not relaxed : and then every fauer muff die hi felf; for that is the idem, and very thing threatned : fo that here, dum alias ¡oink, fimut alïud folvitur. 'Pee law threatned not Chrifl, but its ( befsdes that Chri/i fuffered not the lofs of God's love, en bis image.,and graces, , nor eternity of torment, óf- which I have fpoken in the arearife.-) What faith Mr. Owen to any of this? Let the reader obferve what it is we have in hand. It is not the mainof the controserfy debated by Gestiras wherein I do oppofe him: neither yet all in that
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