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I should think that the Objection lay stronger against them, that they feign Christ to suffer in vain; but how these same men can fairly object this to others, who assign so many effects of Universal Satisfaction, I cannot yet discern.

And let me add this much, lest I be mistaken in my tenth and eleventh Arguments against them (most of which is ad homines,) that I do not think it can be proved that the degree of Christ's pain was so punctually proportioned to the number of sins or sinners for whom he died, that if there had been one more sin or sinner he must have suffered more (or one 1000,) and if there had been one less, he must have suffered less; (though yet I think it was necessary that his suffering were so great and reproachful, as might be a full demonstration of Gods Justice, ⟨p. 445⟩and might serve to the attainment of the ends of the Law: And not as the Friars say, that the least drop of Christs blood might have served to redeem a thousand Worlds.) I suppose it is clear that Christ did give himself a ransom for Fallen Mankind in general, and that if it had been but for a few persons, less might have satisfied God's Justice than Christ did undergo: But that his Sufferings were so proportioned to the number of Sins or Persons undertaken for, let them prove that can, for I cannot, or that believe it, for I do not.

And let me add this much, lest I be mistaken in my tenth and eleventh Arguments against them (most of which is ad homines,) that I do not think it can be proved that the degree of Christ's pain was so punctually proportioned to the number of sins or sinners for whom he died, that if there had been one more sin or sinner he must have suffered more (or one 1000,) and if there had been one less, he must have suffered less; (though yet I think it was necessary that his suffering were so great and reproachful, as might be a full demonstration of Gods Justice, ⟨p. 445⟩and might serve to the attainment of the ends of the Law: And not as the Fryars say, that the least drop of Christs blood might have served to redeem a thousand Worlds.) I suppose it is clear that Christ did give himself a ransom for Fallen Mankind in general, and that if it had been but for a few persons, less might have satisfied God's Justice than Christ did undergo: But that his Sufferings were so proportioned to the number of Sins or Persons undertaken for, let them prove that can, for I cannot, or that believe it, for I do not.