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

3. Consider Christs sufferings being not solutio ipsius Debiti but satisfactio; as is before explained, therefore it was solutio recusabilis, God might have chosen to accept it; and there must intercede, as it were, a new agreement for its acceptance. Now God did accept it, and Christ suffer it only on these terms, that none should for all that have the Pardon of his sins, till he accepted Christ as his Lord Redeemer and Repented of his sins: and this is the true reason why ⟨p. 392⟩Christs Satisfaction, is no hinderance to the punishment of those that reject him and his favours.

4. The Satisfaction of Christ is sufficient and perfect ad suum finem, to all its own ends, but not ad omnem finem, to every use and end: and it was not its use and end to acquit ipso facto any sinner, but only to acquit all on condition of Repenting and Believing, (it being also the full intent of God to give that condition to all his Elect, as shall be anon opened.) Some very Wise, Godly, and Learned men that I have spoke with, wish that the Word [Satisfaction] had been never here used, but instead of it the terms of [an Expiatory or Propitiatory Sacrifice:] because the last is the Scripture phrase and the first is not: But yet Satisfaction is no such unfit term but that it may well be used, though still Scripture phrase I confess is better.

5. As Christ hath satisfied the Father, so the Father hath satisfied Christ (in the larger sense, i. e. he hath fulfilled his desire.) It was not man himself that satisfied, but Christ for man; nor did Christ satisfy in our person, as a delegate pays a Debt in the Debtors name, so as in Law sense Civiliter, it is the Debtor himself that pays it; For then it should have been Solutio not Satisfactio; There being no Vicarius Poenae allowed by the Law, it is indeed impossible, for such a solution to be made; For it should be the Idem and not the Idem quod debetur, quia non naturaliter per eundem, and consequently not civiliter per eundem. Yet a satisfaction may be made by suffering alterius loco; and so Christ did. But as Christ suffered in his own person, viz. Sponsoris, and not our selves; so the effect that