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12. It's also doubtless that Christ suffered in our stead: But in what sense & how far is all the doubt: Because we deserved it, he voluntarily assumed it, to ⟨p. 89⟩demonstrate Gods Justice, Mercy and Wisdom, and deliver us. You say before that, [It was strictest Justice that was showed on Christ.] I would not strive about the word: It was strictest Justice as upon Christ: It was perfect Justice as to the ends of Government: But it was not strictest Justice as to us, nor as strictest signifieth the strict fulfilling or executing of the threatening of the Law: For it was not so executed, but the sinner mercifully pardoned.

12. It's also doubtless that Christ suffered in our stead: But in what sense & how far is all the doubt: Because we deserved it, he voluntarily assumed it, to ⟨p. 89⟩demonstrate Gods Justice, Mercy and Wisdom, and deliver us. You say before that, [It was strictest Justice that was shewed on Christ.] I would not strive about the word: It was strictest Justice as upon Christ: It was perfect Justice as to the ends of Government: But it was not strictest Justice as to us, nor as strictest signifieth the strict fulfilling or executing of the threatning of the Law: For it was not so executed, but the sinner mercifully pardoned.

§. 6. You note that Christ must take our guilt on him or else he could not take our punishment.

Ans. 1. He took not the Reatum facti, or the Reatum •ulpae: For, 1. Our guilt was the accident of one Subject, and that which Christ took of another: Therefore the accidents were not the same. 2. Else sin however taken in its reatus culpae would have made him culpable, and formally a sinner, and hateful to God, and like to Satan: Which he was not.