Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

Here we take payment and satisfaction in the strict legal sense and not in the large sense wherein they are confounded. And now the Question is, whether Christs suffering were the payment of the very debt, or of somewhat else in its stead? The resolving of this depends upon the resolving of two other questions both great and difficult.

Here we take payment and satisfaction in the strict legall sence and not in the large sence wherein they are confounded. And now the Question is, whether Christs suffering were the payment of the very debt, or of somewhat else in its stead? The resolving of this depends upon the resolving of two other quaestions both great and difficult.

1. What it was which the Law did threaten 2. What it was that Christ did suffer?

1. Various are the judgements of Divines about the former; and exceeding difficult it is to determine, because it hath pleased the Holy Ghost to speak of it so sparingly: and who can here understand any more then is written? 1. Whether Adams soul and body should immediately have bin annihilated, or destroyed so as to become insensible? 2. Or whether his soul should have bin immediately separated from his body as ours are at death, and so be the only sufferer of the pain? 3. Or if so, whether there should have bin any Resurrection of the body after any certain space of time, that so it might suffer as well as the soul? 4. Or whether soul and body without separation should have gone down quick together into Hell? Or into any place ⟨p. 19⟩or state of torment short of Hell? 5. Or whether both should have lived a cursed life on Earth through everlasting, in exclusion from Paradise, separation from Gods favour and gracious presence, loss of his image, &c? 6. Or whether he should have lived such a miserable life for a season, and then be annihilated, or destroyed? 7. And if so, whether his misery on Earth should have bin more then men do now endure? And the more important are these Questions of, because of some other that depend upon them. As 1. what death it was that Christ redeemed us from? 2. And what death it is that perishing infants die, or that our guilt in the first transgression doth procure? For it being a sin against the first Covenant only, will be punished with no other death then that which is threatened in that Covenant.