Of the death of Chrift: 17 5. If all this were done by the perlons themfelves, or any one in their fiend; procured and appointed by themfelyes, then were there Tome difficulty in theft gueftions; but this being otherwife, there is none at all, as hath been declared. 3. How the payment made by Chrift was of grace, yet in refpeel of the ob- ligation of the law needed no favour, nor was refutable by ¡office, fuppofing its free conftitution, (hall be afterwards declared. To me the author teems not to harehis wonted cleamefs in this whole Seftion, which might adminifter oc. cafron of further enquiry and exceptions, but I forbear. And thus much be fpoken, for the clearing and vindicating my anfwer rá the arguments of Grotius againt Chrift's paying the Idem of the obligation : the heist lhall furtherconfirm the truth. S¿CJRy ,Q ,, p9P;_Hgy ;Cq:D >iX: , y:; NICpy ;I¡GgDgf-28iï'2'8t,9gçM CHAP. IV: Farther of the matter of the fatirfaelion of Chrift, wherein is proved, That it was thefame tbat meo in the obligation. aeC$ T being fuppofed not to be fufficient tohave (hewed the weaknefs of Ir my endeavour to affert and vindicate from eppofition, what I had tss ei undertaken. Mr. Baxter addeth, that I give p the caufe about -which I contend, as having indeed not underffood him, whom I undertook to oppofe, in there words M '. Otero given up the caufe as 1 I, and faith as Grotius : having hot underflood Grotius his meaning, do appeareth, pag. 141, 040, 043. Whether I underftand Grotins or no, will by and by appear. Whether Mr. $.- .underftandeth me, or the controverfyby me handled, you fhall have now a trial. The affertion which alone I Peek to maintain, is this; That the punifhment which our Saviour underwent, was the fame that the law Inquired of shat God relaxing his law CO to theperfon fuffering, but not as to the penalty fufered. Now, if from this I draw back in any of the conceffions following, collefted from pag. 141, 145, 43. I deprecate not the cenfure of givingup the caufe I contended for. If otherwife, there is a great miftake in Tome body of the whole bufinefs. Of the things then obferve according to Mr. B. his order, I shall take a brief account. r. He acknowledgeth, faith he, that the payment is not made by the party to whom remfon is granted, and fo faith every man that is a Chriftian. This is a part of the porition it fell I maintain, and fo no going back from it t fo that as to this, I may pats as a Chriftian. o. He faith, adds he, it was a fullvaluable compenfation, therefore not of the fame. Fir fl, This inference would trouble Mr. B. to prove. Secondly, Therefore not made by the fame, nor by any of the debtor's appointment, will follow, perhaps, but no more. 3. That by reafon of the obligation upon us; we ourfelveo were bound to undergo the punifhment. Therefore Chris ispunifhmem was not in the obligation, but only ours, and fo the law was not fully executed, but relaxed. F:"rfl, This is my Thefts fully, the law was executed as to its penalty, relaxed as to the perron Mitering. Secondly, The puniltment that Chrift underwent; was in the obligation, though threatned to us. 4. Ile faith, he meaneth not that Chrift bore the fame puniment due to no in ai ac- tidents of duration and the likes but the fame in weight and meafure, thereforenot the fame in the obligation, beìaufe not fully the fame ali. The accidents I mention, follow and attend theperron flittering, and not the penalty itfelf. All evils in any Pottering as far as they are finful; attend the condition of the parties that Culler: every thing ufually recounted by thole who E make
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