Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…

1. Sometime more loosely and largely for the Payment of the proper Debt: the same with Solutio ipsius Debiti. Or,

2. More strictly and properly: For the Satisfying the Creditor by giving him as good a thing, or taking such a course as that he shall be no loser, though the Debt be not paid. And in this sense is the word Satisfaction ordinarily used, as its proper strict sense, the former sense being one of them too general, and the other improper and loose. And so Satisfaction is commonly by Lawyers and Schoolmen defined to be Redditio aequivalentis, alias indebiti: or solutio vel Redditio tantidem: and it is contradistinguished from solutio strictè sumpta; which is ejusdem quod debetur. And so in Criminal Cases, the Punishment of the Offender is the Ipsum Debitum, and not properly satisfaction to the Comminatory part of the Law; (though all Punishment may be called a satisfaction as to the Preceptive part of the Law, because it is not the ipsum quod debetur, as to the Precept, but something to provide that the Law and Lawgiver lose not by the delinquent:) But if any other sufficient means be found which, without the Punishment of the offender, may provide for the Indemnity of the Law-giver, ⟨p. 379⟩and the public good, and this both for what is past by reparation, and for time to come by Prevention, that so the main ends of the violated Law may yet be attained, this is satisfaction to the Lawgiver; Satisfaction alway supposeth the non-payment of the Debt: And in Criminal Cases (as ours is) satisfaction still supposeth the Duty, or Punishment, or both to be overpassed which the Law required. The Punishment of the Delinquent himself, (which may be called a satisfaction to the Law) supposeth that the Precept was violated, by Omission or Commission. The punishing of another for us, or any other such Satisfaction, supposeth the Delinquent himself not to be punished. So that it must needs be remembered by all true Christians, that Christ did not only satisfy for our not obeying, but for our not suffering the Punishment threatened by the Law, and so due to us for our disobedience: yea most directly did he Suffer for our not Suffering, and so secondarily for our Sinning. Further it must be remembered, that satisfactio est solutio Recusabilis; sed solutio ejusdem est non recusabilis; The Creditor or Rector may choose to take satisfaction, by receiving the value in another kind: But he cannot refuse the proper Debt, unless by remitting it freely: He can require nothing else but the Debt: