I8 Of the death of Chrift. make this and the like exceptions, as tar as they are purely penal, were on thrift. 5. Hefaith God load power fo far to relax his own law, on to have the name of a furetyput into the obligation, which befire nao not there, and then to require.the while debt of that fneety. And what faith Grotius more than this ? If the fame things in the, obligation be paid, then the law is executede and if executed, then not relaxed. Here he cnnfi eth,. that the furety's name was not in the obligation, and that God relaxed the law to put it in. Now the main buffnefo that Grotius drives at there, ü to prove this relaxation of the law, and the non-execution of it on the offenders threat,ecd. Thus far M.r. Baxter. F/eli, All this proves not at all the things intended, neither doth any con- ceffion here mentioned, in the leaft take off front the main affertion I main- tain, as is apparent to any at firft view. Scondly, Grotius is fo far from laying mote than I do, that he lays not fo much. Thirdly, This Paralogifm if the law be executed, then not relaxed; and on the contrary, arifeth merely from a non- confideration of the nature of contradi&tories. The oppofition fancied here is not veis al dort, ear ,1 rived, dee/Pet x h xtívrs, as is required of contradiftions. Fourthly, The obfervation,thatGrotius's main bufnefs is othertvife, difcovereth the bottom of Mr. B. his miftalte : even a fuppofal that I fhould oppofe. Grotius in his main intendment in the place confmned, which Was not once in my thoughts. It was merely about the nature of thepenalty that thrift underwent, that I difcourfed. How the relaxation' of the law, as to the commutationof perlons may be eftablifhed, .. whether we affirm thrift to have paid the idem, or tantundem. And that Mr. B. affirms the fame withme, I can prove by twenty infances. The reader, if he picole, may confult page 18 and 25, 33, 34: 33, 42,48. and in plain termspag. 81. In refpea`l of punifhment abflrafl- ing fromperfons, the lam was not dtJJed.xeiohal .0e00 Ciaojl. And what laid I more? .And fo much, if not coo much, to Mr. Baxter's exceptions, which of what weight and force they are, I leave to others to judge. That which I maintain as to this point in difference, I have alto made ap- parent ; it is wholly comprized under theft two heads : FP'rfi, Chrift fu@èred the fame penalty which was in the obligation. Secondly, To do fo, it to make payment ej:fdem, and not tantidem. The reafons of both, I. fhall briefly fubjoyn. And Ali, as to the firth,, they are thefe following: r. The Scripture hath exprefly revealed the tranflation of punifhment in re- fpell of the fubjeas fuffering it t but hath not fpoken one word of the change- of the kind of punifhment, but rather the contrary is affirmed, Rom. 8. 3a: He fpared not his own Son, but deliveredhim up for ea all. 2. All the punifhment due to us, was contained in the curie and fandion of the law : that is, the penalty of the obligation whereof we Ipake ; but this was undergone by the Lord Chrift, For he hash redeemed no from the eurfe of the law, being made a wife for us, Gal. 3. 13. 3. Where God condemneth fn, there he condemns it, in that very punifh- ment which is due unto it in the flitter, or rather to the firmer for it. He bath revealed but one rule of his proceeding in this cafe Now he condemned fin in the Befit of Chrift : or in him, feet in the liltenefs of fmful flea/. Rom. 8. 3o. God fending his ov t Son in the likenef of onfid pp, and fo fin condemned fm in the fìefh. The condemning of fin, is the inflif }ion of punifhment due to fin. 4. The whole penaltyof fm is death, Gen. ii. it. This Chrift underwent for us. Heb. 2. 14. He rafted death. And to die foranother, is to undergo that death which that other fhould have undergone, z Sam. xviü. 33.. It is true, this dead; may be confidered either in refped of its effence (if I may be allowed fo to (peak) which is called the pains of. Hell which Chrift underwent, Pfral. xviü. 6. and na. r. Luke 22. 44. or of its attendencies, as duration and the like, which he could not undergo, Pfe 1. xvi. ao. Atli a. So that whereas eternal death maybe conlidered two ways, eitheras fuch in potentid, and in its own nature, or as allay ally: fo our Saviour underwent it not in the latter, but firft Peale, Heb. ZH, 14. which by the dignity ofhis perfon, 1 Pet. 3. 18. Heb. 9. ab, Ram. 5.9 which railes the eftimation of punifhment, is aquipotent to the other. There is a fame- 28. in thrift's fufFeringswith that in the obligation in refpeft of efíence, and equivalency in refpeû of attendencies. 5. The.
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