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

Answ. Yes, he bore the Curse of the Law Materially; that is, that Cursed Death which the Law threatened; But he bore it not ex formali Legis obligatione, sed tantum ex obligatione sponsionis propriae, & precepti paterni; The Law obliged us to punishment, but it never obliged Christ to Punishment; only its obliging us to it, was the occasion of Christs Obligation, because it occasioned him to Oblige himself by his own voluntary sponsion, that he might free us. But still it was only his own sponsion that obliged him (together with that peculiar will of his Father, that he should undertake and discharge our debt;) so that you see the Law is but once executed, even on the Damned (as to full execution, for mans mortality and sufferings here, are a small part of the Execution which Christ saw it not meet to take off.) And so the ipsum Debitum is paid but once; Christs ⟨p. 390⟩Sufferings being not solutio ejusdem, sed satisfactio, i. e. solutio aequivalentis alias indebiti.

Answ. Yes, he bore the Curse of the Law Materially; that is, that Cursed Death which the Law threatned; But he bore it not ex formali Legis obligatione, sed tantum ex obligatione sponsionis propriae, & precepti paterni; The Law obliged us to punishment, but it never obliged Christ to Punishment; only its obliging us to it, was the occasion of Christs Obligation, because it occasioned him to Oblige himself by his own voluntary sponsion, that he might free us. But still it was only his own sponsion that obliged him (together with that peculiar will of his Father, that he should undertake and discharge our debt;) so that you see the Law is but once executed, even on the Damned (as to full execution, for mans mortality and sufferings here, are a small part of the Execution which Christ saw it not meet to take off.) And so the ipsum Debitum is paid but once; Christs ⟨p. 390⟩Sufferings being not solutio ejusdem, sed satisfactio, i. e. solutio aequivalentis alias indebiti.

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