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

Neither doth it follow, that on the supposition of the satisfaction pleaded for, the Freedom, Pardon, or Acquitment of the person originally guilty and liable to punishment, must immediately and ipso facto, ensue. It is not of the nature of every solution or satisfaction, that deliverance must ipso facto follow. And the Reason of it is, because this satisfaction by a succedaneous substitution of one to undergo punishment for another, must be founded in a voluntary compact, and Agreement, For there is required unto it, a Relaxation of the Law, though not as unto the punishment to be inflicted, yet as unto the person to be punished. And it is otherwise in personal guilt, than in pecuniary debts. In these the Debt it self ⟨p. 222⟩is solely intended, the person only obliged with reference thereunto. In the other, the person is firstly and principally under the Obligation. And therefore when a pecuniary debs is paid, by whomsoever it be paid, the Obligation of the person himself unto payment ceaseth ipso facto. But in things criminal, the guilty person himself, being firstly, immediately and intentionally under the Obligation unto punishment, when there is introduced by compact, a vicarious solution in the substitution of another to suffer, though he suffer the same absolutely which those should have done for whom he suffers; yet because of the Acceptation of his person to suffer, which might have been refused, and could not be admitted, without some Relaxation of the Law, Deliverance of the guilty persons cannot ensue ipso facto, but by the intervention of the Terms fixed on in the Covenant or Agreement for an admittance of the substitution.

Neither doth it follow, that on the supposition of the satisfaction pleaded for, the Freedom, Pardon, or Acquitment of the person originally guilty and liable to punishment, must immediately and ipso facto, ensue. It is not of the nature of every solution or satisfaction, that deliverance must ipso facto follow. And the Reason of it is, because this satisfaction by a succedaneous substitution of one to undergo punishment for another, must be founded in a voluntary compact, and Agreement, For there is required unto it, a Relaxation of the Law, though not as unto the punishment to be inflicted, yet as unto the person to be punished. And it is otherwise in personal guilt, than in pecuniary debts. In these the Debt it self ⟨p. 222⟩