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

Moreover, satisfaction being a refusable payment, the Creditor may take it on his own terms, and there must intercede a New Agreement for the accepting of it, and if the Satisfier will not come to the Creditors terms, he may refuse it, as no satisfaction: whereas if the Debt it ⟨p. 380⟩self be paid, he must ipso facto acknowledge the Debtor acquit and to be no longer a Debtor: The like may be said in the Punishment of a Delinquent. To apply all to the case in hand: Christ was not the offender, therefore Christs Sufferings (as is said before) were not the fulfilling; of the Law; but satisfaction to the Law-giver. His Satisfaction supposeth that no man was himself Punished when Christ satisfied (morally by undertaking his natural suffering) nor ever was to be punished merely on the old score; that is, merely for violating and incurring the penalty of the first Law, by God as Rector according to that Law. God might have refused to accept Christs Sufferings as a Satisfaction for Sinners; much more, to have freely provided it out of his own Treasure, as it were; when God therefore did freely himself provide a Satisfaction, and freely Accept it, He did both only on these terms; that [as Legislator of the strict Law of Works as standing without remedy, he would punish no Man, but yet he would not actually and absolutely discharge them, for they are still his Subjects; and now by a double right and bond, viz both of Creation, and Redemption, and therefore must still be governed by him, and therefore must still be Governed by Laws, and therefore must still be under Precepts, Prohibitions, Promises, and Threatenings, which are the Parts of the Law. For the Nature of Man is such, as that it must be governed not merely by Commanding, but also per Praemia & Poenas, (Experience tells us that of the best Men on Earth) as propounded to them; therefore ⟨p. 381⟩God in mercy would make a New Law, commanding all men to repent, and (that hear the Gospel) to Believe;

Moreover, satisfaction being a refusable payment, the Creditor may take it on his own terms, and there must intercede a New Agreement for the accepting of it, and if the Satisfier will not come to the Creditors terms, he may refuse it, as no satisfaction: whereas if the Debt it ⟨p. 380⟩