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

4. It is yet farther objected, that if Christ made satisfaction for sin, then he did it either as God, or as Man, or as God and Man.

Answ, (1.) As God and Man, Acts 20. 28. God redeemed his Church with his own blood, 1 John 3. 16. Herein was manifest the Love of God, that he laid down his life for us, Heb. 9. 14. (2.) This dilemma is proposed as ⟨p. 192⟩that which proceeds on a supposition of our own principles, that Christ is God and Man in one Person, which indeed makes the pretended difficulty to be vain and a mere effect of ignorance. For all the Mediatory acts of Christ being the acts of his Person, must of necessity be the acts of him as God and Man. (3.) There is yet another mistake in this inquiry; for satisfaction is in it looked on as a real act or operation of one, or the other nature in Christ; when it is the Ap•telesma or Effect of the actings, the doing and suffering of Christ; the Dignity of what he did in reference unto the end for which he did it. For the two natures are so united in Christ, as not to have a third compound principle of Physical acts and operations thence arising; but each nature acts distinctly according to its own being and properties; yet so, as what is the immediate act of either nature, is the act of him who is one in both, from whence it hath its dignity. ⟨p. 193⟩(4.) The sum is; that in all the Mediatory actions of Christ we are to consider, (1.) The Agent, and that is the Person of Christ. (2.) The immediate principle by which, and from which the Agent worketh; and that is the natures in the Person. (3.) The Actions, which are the effectual Operations of either nature. (4.) The Effect or work with respect to God and us; and this relates unto the Person of the Agent, the Lord Christ, God and Man. A blending of the natures into one common principle of operation, as the compounding of Mediums unto one end, is ridiculously supposed in this matter.