Of the death of Chri¡t. that particular whereabout the oppolìtion is. Now luppole, as he dotn, that the punifhiug of the perfon offending is in the obligation, yet I cannot but conceive that there be two diffin& things here : Fi"rfl, The coufitution of the penalty it felf to be undergone. Secondly, The terminating of this penalty upon the perfcn offending. For this latter, I alfert a relaxation of the law, which might be done, and yet the penalty it felf in reference to its conffitution be 'effablifhéd. In thofe places then, la the day thou eatefl, &r. there is death and the curle appointed for the penalty, and the perfon offending appointed for the fufferer. That the law is relaxed, in the latter I grant. That theformer was exeuutedon Chrift I prove. Now what lays this argument to the contrary? If the fame in the obligation bepaid, than the law it executed not relaxed. Then every Pier muff die himfelf, for that is the idem and every thing threatned. Sa that here dum alias folvit, aliad folvitur. r. The matter of, the obligationhaving a double conlideration, as before, it may be both executed and relaxed in fundry refpefts. a. The Idem and very thing threatnedin the conlìitution of the law, isdeath; the terminatingof that penalty to the perfon offending was in the commination, hnd had it not been releafed, muff have been in the execution : but in the con- Yritution of the obligation which refpe&s purely the kindof penalty, primarily itwas not. Death is therewardof fin, is all that is there. g. We enquire not about payment, but fuffering. To make that fuffering a payment, fuppofeth another conftitution, by virtue. whereof Chrift fuffering the fame that was threatned, it became another thing in payment, than it would have been, if the perfon offending had Coffered himfelf. 4. That the law threatned not Chrift but us, is molt true: but the queflion is, whether Chrift underwent not the rhreaming of the law, not we ? A cdnn ltturatibn.of perlons is allowed, Chrift undergoing the penalty of the offence, though he were not the perfon offending, I cannot but (kill fuppofe that he paid the ideen of the obligation. 5. For the pareulrelis about Chrif's not fuffering the lofs of God's love, -e'n änd the like tìbjedlions, they have been anfwered near a thoufand times already, and that by no ordinary divines neither ; fo that I -fhall notfurther trouble any therewith. Now this is the argument, the great, chiefargument of Cestius and 7%f tae, Which Mr. Baxter affirms I over-looked. That I did not exprefs it, I eafily grant : neither will I fo wrong the inge- niousreader as to make any long apology for my million of it, conlidering the £fate of the matter in difference as before propofed. When Mr. B. or any man cite, than be able to draw out any conclufìon from thence, 7hatgranting the re- laxation of the law anto the perfon fYffering, the Lord Chrift did not undergo thepenal: conflituted therein, or that undergoing the very penalty appointed, he did not pay the idem in the obligation ( fuppoling a newconffitution for the converting of {utfer- ing into a farisfaâory payment) I fhall then give a reafon why I conlidered it not. In the next place Mr. B.giveth in the two arguments wherein I deal. And for the firfl, about an acquitment ipfo fa/?o 'upon the payment of the idem in the obligation, with my anfwer, refers it tobe conlidered in another place : which though I receive no fmall injury by, as Ihall be there declared, yet that I maynot trangrefs the order of difcourfc let me, I pafs it byalfoun- til then. Thefecond argument of Grotius with my anfwer,- he thus expreffeth : To the fecond argument, that the payment of the fame thing in the obligation lea/oele no room for pardon, he anfwereth ties : God's pardoning cooeprfth the whole difenfation ofGrace in -Chrìfi: As, (l:)"She laying of our fin on Chrill: (a.) She impaeatio'a of his righteeufnefs to OM, uln'eb is no lefs of Grace and Mercy. Hwever God pardoneth all to us, but nothing to C s'fl I f that the freedom of pardon loath its foundation. s. In God's wi/i freely appointing this faticfaEíieo of ChrfI. a. In a gracious acceptation of the decreed fatifablion in our dead 3. In a free application of the death of' Chri fl to sos. 7o which I anfwer, &c. So far he. Though
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