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Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the late learned Mr. Richard Barter [sic] ; whereunto is added a short account of Special redemption, by the same author.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1694
OF Universal Redemption. › Chapter 2: Some further necessary Distinction.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. We must distinguish between the satisfying of God as Rector per leges and the satisfying him as Dominus absolutus. Christ did not satisfy God properly as Dominus absolutus, but as Rector per Legem, yea as Rector per hanc Legem •p•••m; and so satisfied him by doing and suffering that by which the chief ends of that Law may be attained. Much less did God require satisfaction strictly and properly as a Creditor for a Debt: Though Metaphorically our Sins and our Punishment are called Debt; and so we are called Debtors and God the Creditor; And so satisfaction is the Redditio equivalentis vel Tantidem, non Ejusdem. Yet without a metaphor, punishment may be called Debitum, Due: But it is Due to us from God, and not properly to God from us; much less due to God as a Debt to a Creditor, or Goods and Possessions to a Proprietary.
6. We must distinguish between the satisfying of God as Rector per leges and the satisfying him as Dominus absolutus. Christ did not satisfie God properly as Dominus absolutus, but as Rector per Legem, yea as Rector per hanc Legem •p•••m; and so satisfied him by doing and suffering that by which the chief ends of that Law may be attained. Much less did God require satisfaction strictly and properly as a Creditor for a Debt: Though Metaphorically our Sins and our Punishment are called Debt; and so we are called Debtors and God the Creditor; And so satisfaction is the Redditio equivalentis vel Tantidem, non Ejusdem. Yet without a metaphor, punishment may be called Debitum, Due: But it is Due to us from God, and not properly to God from us; much less due to God as a Debt to a Creditor, or Goods and Possessions to a Proprietary.
7, We must distinguish betwixt suffering ex obligatione Legis & merito peccati, as we should have done if we had suffered our selves; and suffering ex obligatione solius sponsionis propriae; as Christ did without any Merit or Legal obligation; His own Sponsion being instead of both, and our Sin and Obligation being but the Occasion, or Loco Causae meritoriae & Obligatoriae. These Distinctions are chiefly to show what Christ did, which must be known before we can clearly discern for whom: The use will be after manifest. More