2. Nay, consider further, that the equivalency lay not in the proportion of Punishment (pain or loss) equal to that which was due to all or to the Elect; but in the sufficient aptitude of that Degree or Punishment, which Christ bore (becoming a public spectacle of shame, for the demonstration of Justice, &c.) from the exceeding Dignity of the person, to be a means to Gods obtaining the remote ends of his Law, (viz. the demonstration of Justice, and right governing the Creature, and preserving the Authority of the Lawgiver) though the nearest ends of that Law were not attained (viz. the personal obedience of man, and for want of that, his personal suffering.) Many Learned Divines have written largely to prove that Christ did not properly suffer the pains of Hell on his Soul; I will not meddle much with that question; But doubtless it was a very great part of our punishment which Christ was uncapable of undergoing; much less may any dare to affirm that his Sufferings Materially were as great as All the Sufferings of All that he died for should have been. The Death due to us was Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal. The Temporal Death is so much the least, that many Divines will not be persuaded that it hath now to the Godly any nature of Punishment, but is only materially a suffering. The Spiritual Death, so far as it consisted in the loss of Gods Image, and privation of Holiness, and Dominion of Sin and Slavery to Satan, Christ bore not at all. Nor yet as it lay in any Torments ⟨p. 391⟩or Gripes of Conscience, which are the fruits only of personal proper guilt, in the remembrance of the Folly, or Wilfulness, or Negligence, or Unkindness, or the like Evils manifested in Sinning. Christ had no sin of his own to look on to torment him: and other mens Sins could not procure to him the gripes of a Guilty Conscience. Nor yet was his Soul or Body so deprived of Gods Love as are the wicked, nor so hated by God, nor at all disunited from God: For upon the loss of Union with God, and Spiritual Communion with him, would have followed, the loss of Grace, and depravation of the Soul, and prevalency of sin: nor yet were any of Christs sufferings Eternal.
2. Nay, consider further, that the equivalency lay not in the proportion of Punishment (pain or loss) equal to that which was due to all or to the Elect; but in the sufficient aptitude of that Degree or Punishment, which Christ bore (becoming a publick spectacle of shame, for the demonstration of Justice, &c.) from the exceeding Dignity of the person, to be a means to Gods obtaining the remote ends of his Law, (viz. the demonstration of Justice, and right governing the Creature, and preserving the Authority of the Lawgiver) though the nearest ends of that Law were not attained (viz. the personal obedience of man, and for want of that, his personal suffering.) Many Learned Divines have written largeiy to prove that Christ did not properly suffer the pains of Hell on his Soul; I will not meddle much with that question; But doubtless it was a very great part of our punishment which Christ was uncapable of undergoing; much less may any dare to affirm that his Sufferings Materially were as great as All the Sufferings of All that he died for should have been. The Death due to us was Temporal, Spiritual, and Eternal. The Temporal Death is so much the least, that many Divines will not be persuaded that it hath now to the Godly any nature of Punishment, but is only materially a suffering. The Spiritual Death, so far as it consisted in the loss of Gods Image, and privation of Holiness, and Dominion of Sin and Slavery to Satan, Christ bore not at all. Nor yet as it lay in any Torments ⟨p. 391⟩or Gripes of Conscience, which are the fruits only of personal proper guilt, in the remembrance of the Folly, or Wilfulness, or Negligence, or Unkindness, or the like Evils manifested in Sinning. Christ had no sin of his own to look on to torment him: and other mens Sins could not procure to him the gripes of a Guilty Conscience. Nor yet was his Soul or Body so deprived of Gods Love as are the wicked, nor so hated by God, nor at all disunited from God: For upon the loss of Union with God, and Spiritual Communion with him, would have followed, the loss of Grace, and depravation of the Soul, and prevalency of sin: nor yet were any of Christs sufferings Eternal.
