A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…

For the term of Satisfaction, we contend not about it. It doth indeed properly express and connote that great Effect of the Death of Christ which in the cause before us, we plead for. But yet because it belongs rather to the Explanation of the Truth contended for, then is used expressly in the Revelation of it, and because the right understanding of the Word it self depends on some notions of Law, that as yet we need not take into consideration, I shall not in this entrance of our discourse, insist precisely upon it, but leave it as the natural conclusion of what we shall find expressly declared in the Scripture. Neither do I say this, as though I did decline the Word, or the right use of it, or what is properly signified ⟨p. 151⟩by it, but do only cast it into its proper place answerable unto our method and design in the whole of this brie• discourse.

For the term of Satisfaction, we contend not about it. It doth indeed properly express and connote that great Eff•ct of the Death of Christ which in the cause before us, we plead for. But yet because it belongs rather to the Explanation of the Truth contended for, then is used expresly in the Revelation of it, and because the right understanding of the Word it self depends on some notions of Law, that as yet we need not take into consideration, I shall not in this entrance of our discourse, insist precisely upon it, but leave it as the natural conclusion of what we shall find expresly declared in the Scripture. Neither do I say this, as though I did decline the Word, or the right use of it, or what is properly signified ⟨p. 151⟩by it, but do only cast it into its proper place answerable unto our method and design in the whole of this brie• discourse.

I know some have taken a new way of expressing and declaring the Doctrine concerning the Mediation of Christ, with the causes and ends of his death, which they think more rational, than that usually insisted on. But as what I have yet heard of or seen in that kind, hath been not only unscriptural, but also very irrational, and most remote from that accuracy whereunto they pretend, who make use of it; so if they shall publish their conceptions, it is not improbable but that they may meet with a Scholastical Examination by some hand or other.