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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.

2. He took upon him the Reatum poena seu obligationem ad •oenam: But not ours individually the same; but one of his own instead of ours: Christs guilt and ours were divers accidents of divers persons. The obligations nor the Subjects were not the same. Our obligation to punishment was an act of the Law which we broke: So was not Christs: That Law never bound him to punishment: But his own voluntary undertaking and his Fathers imposition. Our guilt was the occasion and reason of Christs assumed guilt: As our punishment individually was not it that he suffered, but his own punishment to prevent ours. He suffered the just for the unjust, to redeem us to God. God tells us plainly that Christ suffered for our sins, and was ⟨p. 90⟩made sin, that is, a Curse or Sacrifice for sin for us, that we might not suffer. And cannot we receive this plain Gospel, without spinning so many additional webs of our own? Christs taking our guilt and punishment is no more, but his voluntary suffering in our stead, that we might be pardoned, not by that suffering immediately, but by his free donation in the Law of Grace, in his time and on his terms.

2. He took upon him the Reatum poena seu obligationem ad •oenam: But not ours individually the same; but one of his own instead of ours: Christs guilt and ours were divers accidents of divers persons. The obligations nor the Subjects were not the same. Our obligation to punishment was an act of the Law which we broke: So was not Christs: That Law never bound him to punishment: But his own voluntary undertaking and his Fathers imposition. Our guilt was the occasion and reason of Christs assumed guilt: As our punishment individually was not it that he suffered, but his own punishment to prevent ours. He suffered the just for the unjust, to redeem us to God. God tells us plainly that Christ suffered for our sins, and was