An antidote against error concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…An antidote against errour concerning justification, or, The true notion of justification, and of…

by taking vengeance in the one place, by giving satisfaction in the other, either of wch by the term of payment, we are wont to express. Now where full satisfaction is made and accepted for the the breach or transgression of a Law, the Law is not thereby repealed or abrogated, but it is rather thereby manifested to be firm and of force to oblige those whom it concerns, either to the strict observation of it, or to a just compensation in some kind or other made for default therein committed. and this hath our Saviour Christ in our behalf exhibited. For howsoever I dare not run out so far as to affirm as many do, that our Saviour suffered the very self-same torments, partly in his Agony and partly on the Cross, that the damned souls suffer, and those that have interest in the merit of his sufferings, should have suffered in Hell; much less that he suffered such an high degree of torments in those few hours while he hung on the Cross, as did in the intension and extremitie thereof ad pondus for weight answer and was adequate unto all those penalties, made up into one Mass, and comprised in one lump, that unto all eternity the whole multitude of Gods elect, for all whose sins he satisfied, were to have ⟨p. 29⟩endured, the power of his Deity supporting and enabling his humane nature thereunto: since that Christs humane nature, in which the satisfaction was to be made, and was made, being but a finite creature, could not be capable of admitting such an infinite weight of torment, as such a mass of endless suffering must of necessity have amounted unto. albeit for the allay hereof, that were allowed,¹ which a learned man of eminent parts from Picus and Scotus suggests, that unto the sins of the penitent, because they are broken off by repentance, an infinite penalty is not due: which yet seems to want sound ground of proof from Gods word; wherein the Apostle speaking of the sins of the faithful, who had now cast off the service of sin, saith in general, theirs not excluded, the stipend of sin, (or the pay due to it, a military term) is death; and that eternal death is intended, appears by its opposite, everlasting life, said there to be Gods Donative, as Tertullian well renders it, being a term of the like nature with the former, that is, his larges or free gift: such as the Roman Generals besides their pay used to confer upon their Soldiery:

by taking vengeance in the one place, by giving satisfaction in the other, either of wch by the term of payment, we ar wont to expres. Now where ful satisfaction is made and accepted for the the breach or transgression of a Law, the Law is not thereby repealed or abrogated, but it is rather thereby manifested to be firm and of force to oblige those whom it concerns, either to the strict observation of it, or to a just compensation in some kind or other made for default therein committed. and this hath our Saviour Christ in our behalf exhibited. For howsoever I dare not run out so far as to affirm as manie do, that our Savior suffered the verie self-same torments, partlie in his Agonie and partlie on the Cross, that the damned souls suffer, and those that have interest in the merit of his sufferings, should have suffered in Hell; much les that he suffered such an high degree of torments in those few howers while he hung on the Cross, as did in the intension and extremitie thereof ad pondus for weight answer and was adeqate unto all those penalties, made up into one Mass, and comprised in one lump, that unto all eternitie the whole multitude of Gods elect, for all whose sinnes he satisfied, were to have