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

But Christ was neither really a Sinner, nor esteemed of God so to be, and in that sense, sin •as not imputed to him. 4. All know that […] Physico Christ did not bear our persons.

But Christ was neither really a Sinner, nor e••eemed of God so to be, and in that sence, sin •as not imputed to him. 4. All know that 〈…〉 Physico Christ did not bear our persons.

Some will needs extend the phrase, of [bearing or representing the person of another] civiliter, ⟨p. 68⟩so far, as if it were applicable to every sponsor, surety, or one that alterius vice & loco. doth do or suffer any thing: And so they say, [Christ bore our Person]: But as I think they abuse the phrase, by extending it so far; so I am content they use their liberty to express themselves as they please: only I entreat them that they misunderstand not me; but know that my meaning is, that [the Law doth not look on any Man, no not the Elect as having either satisfied or suffered in or by Christ; nor doth the Law-giver and judge so look on him: And so Christ did not strictly in Law-Sense bear the person of any Man in suffering, so as that person might be said to have in him suffered]. 6. Some think Christ in suffering the penalty, as penalty, did strictly bear our persons as Sinners; but not as this suffering was a satisfaction to Gods Justice which is the effect of it, much less as it was meritorious of further Grace and Salvation. The Authors or owners of this opinion (of whom Armini•• himself seems one) discerned the inconveniences that would follow the opinion of strict Representation; but while they discerned not the right way of avoiding them and feared lest they should swerve by a full denial of it, they seem to me to fall into the same place from which they leaped. Though I confess that at the first view, I began to incline to this opinion, as most moderate, which now I see to be unsafe.