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

These and the like things are usually insisted on in the Explication ⟨p. 167⟩or declaration of this head of our confession. And there is not any of them but may be sufficiently confirmed by Divine Testimonies. It may also be farther evinced that there is nothing asserted in them, but what is excellently suited unto the common notions which mankind hath of God and his Righteousness; and that in their practice they answer the light of nature, and common reason exemplified in sundry Instances among the Nations of the World.

I shall therefore take one Argument from some of the testimonies before produced in the confirmation of this Sacred Truth, and proceed to remove the objections that are commonly banded against it.

If the Lord Christ according to the Will of the Father, and by his own counsel and choice, was substituted, and did substitute himself as the Mediator of the Covenant, in the room and in the stead of sinners that they might be saved, and therein bare ⟨p. 168⟩their sins, or the punishment due unto their sins, by undergoing the curse and penalty of the Law, and therein also according to the Will of God offered up himself for a propitiatory, expiatory Sacrifice to make Atonement for sin, and Reconciliation for sinners, that the Justice of God being appeased, and the Law fulfilled, they might go free, or be delivered from the wrath to come; and if therein also he paid a real satisfactory price for their Redemption; then he made satisfaction to God for sin. For these are the things that we intend by that expression, of satisfaction. But now all those things are openly, and fully witnessed unto in the Testimonies before produced; as may be observed by suiting some of them unto the several particulars here asserted.