The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

2. It is not inconsistent with Reason, that the Son of God clothed with our Nature, should by his Death make Satisfaction to the Deity, and therefore to himself. In the according of two Parties, a Person that belongs to one of them, may interpose for Reconciliation, provided that he divests his own Interest, and leaves it with the Party from whom he comes. Thus when the Senate of Rome, and the People were in dissension,¹ one of the Senators trusted his own Concernment with the Council, of which he was a Member, and mediated between the Parties to reconcile them. Thus when the Father and the Son both possest of the Imperial Power, have been offended by Rebellious Subjects, 'tis not inconvenient that the Son interpose as a Mediator, to restore them to the Favour of the Prince. And by this he reconciles them to himself, and procures them Pardon of an Offence, by which his own Majesty was violated. This he doth as Mediator, not as a a Party concerned. Now this is a fit Illustration of the Great Work of our Redemption, so far as Humane things can represent Divine. For all the Persons of the Glorious Trinity were equally provoked by our Sin; and to obtain our Pardon the Son with the consent of the Father deposits his Interest into his Hands, and as a Mediator intervenes between us and him, who in this Transaction is the Depositary of the Rights of Heaven, and having performed what Justice required, he reconciled the World to God, that is, to the Father, Himself, and the Eternal Spirit. In this Cause his Person is the same, but his Quality is different: he made Satisfaction as Mediator, and received it as God. 'Tis in this sense that the Apostle saith, We have an Advocate ⟨p. 251⟩with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: ²Not to exclude the other Persons, but in regard the Father as the First Person is the Protector of Justice, our Mediator in appeasing Him appeases the others also.

2. It is not inconsistent with Reason, that the Son of God cloathed with our Nature, should by his Death make Satisfaction to the Deity, and therefore to himself. In the according of two Parties, a Person that belongs to one of them, may interpose for Reconciliation, provided that he devests his own Interest, and leaves it with the Party from whom he comes. Thus when the Senate of Rome, and the People were in dissension,