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

4. To admit of satisfaction, is the Act of the Lawgiver or Rector, as he is above Law; therefore ⟨p. 89⟩it is no act of the Law. As to make a Law, to pardon an Offender, to abrogate a Law, &c. are acts of one above the Law, so is the relaxing of the Law in pardoning the Sinner, and taking Christs sufferings for ours. Can any obligation dissolve or remit it self?

5. If the Law did neither threaten Christ in the first enacting of it, nor hath power to change it self since, by assuming another sense, then Christs sufferings were neither a fulfilling nor satisfaction to the Law. At verum prius Erg•. If the name of Christ were put into the threatening after the Law was made, then the Law was changed, and so is not the same; and it could not change it self. Indeed if another for you pay a Debt, the Bond is satisfied, because it was the ipsum debitum. But if another will bear the Death that you deserve, the Law that threatens you is not satisfied nor fulfilled; But the Law-giver is satisfied, and the ends of the Law attained. But here note, that this relaxation and non fulfilling of the Law, is not total and absolute; nor such as derogateth at all from the honour of the Law or Lawgiver; but it is a relaxation upon such terms as preserve both fully; the full weight of the threatened Punishment being born or undertaken by the Son of God, before God would relax his Law.

5. If the Law did neither threaten Christ in the first enacting of it, nor hath power to change it self since, by assuming another sense, then Christs sufferings were neither a fulfilling nor satisfaction to the Law. At verum prius Erg•. If the name of Christ were put into the threatning after the Law was made, then the Law was changed, and so is not the same; and it could not change it self. Indeed if another for you pay a Debt, the Bond is satisfied, because it was the ipsum debitum. But if another will bear the Death that you deserve, the Law that threatens you is not satisfied nor fulfilled; But the Law-giver is satisfied, and the ends of the Law attained. But here note, that this relaxation and non fulfilling of the Law, is not total and absolute; nor such as derogateth at all from the honour of the Law or Lawgiver; but it is a relaxation upon such terms as preserve both fully; the full weight of the threatned Punishment being born or undertaken by the Son of God, before God would relax his Law.