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CHAP. II. Some further necessary Distinction.

1. IN the next place as I told you that it was Essential to Christs Punishment in Specie that he suffered nostro loco; so because here lies the first and greatest point of the Controversy in hand, quorum loco, in whose stead Christ suffered, and whose sin or guilt did lie upon him. And also because the right or wrong understanding of this point hath so great an influence into most of the consequent points in the Body of Divinity, as either much to help us, or quite to overturn all; I think it exceeding necessary, that we here carefully distinguish of the Phrase Nostro loco, or in our stead. Understand therefore that a thing may be said to be done or suffered [In our stead] in these two senses, 1. When he that doth or suffereth it, doth therein Legally Personate us, or Represent our Persons, or do it in our Name; so far that though Naturally the Agent or Patient be another person: yet Legally Morally or Civiliter he is not another. Thus a Deputy, Delegate▪ or Vicarius whom I send in my Name to pay a Debt, is herein Legally my self: What he payeth I pay Civiliter or in Law sense. I shall show you when I come to my Propositions how intolerable and desperate an Error it is, overthrowing the very frame of Christianity, to affirm that Christ did thus Die or Satisfy Nostro loco in our stead, or any Mans stead.

1. IN the next place as I told you that it was Essential to Christs Punishment in Specie that he suffered nostro loco; so because here lies the first and greatest point of the Controversie in hand, quorum loco, in whose stead Christ suffered, and whose sin or guilt did lie upon him. And also because the right or wrong understanding of this point hath so great an influence into most of the consequent points in the Body of Divinity, as either much to help us, or quite to overturn all; I think it exceeding necessary, that we here carefully distinguish of the Phrase Nostro loco, or in our stead. Understand therefore that a thing may be said to be done or suffered [In our stead] in these two sences, 1. When he that doth or suffereth it, doth therein Legally Personate us, or Represent our Persons, or do it in our Name; so far that though Naturally the Agent or Patient be another person: yet Legally Morally or Civiliter he is not another. Thus a Deputy, Delegate or Vicarius whom I send in my Name to pay a Debt, is herein Legally my self: What he payeth I pay Civiliter or in Law sence. I shall shew you when I come to my Propositions how intollerable and desperate an Error it is, overthrowing the very frame of Christianity, to affirm that Christ did thus Die or Satisfie Nostro loco in our stead, or any Mans stead.