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

I have recounted these Instances to evince the common intention, sense, and understanding of that expression, of one dying for another; and to manifest by Examples, what is the sense of mankind, about any ones being devoted and substituted in the Room of others, to deliver them from death and danger; the consideration whereof, added to the constant use of the ⟨p. 245⟩words mentioned, in the Scripture, is sufficient to f••nd and confirm this conclusion.

That whereas it is frequently affirmed, in the Scripture, their Christ dyed for us, and for our sins, &c. to deny that he dyed and suffered in our stead, undergoing the death whereunto we were obnoxious, and the punishment due to our sins, is; if we respect in what we say or believe▪ the constant use of those words in the Scripture, the nature of the thing it self concerning which they are used, the uncontrolled use of that Expression in all sorts of Writers, in expressing the same thing, which the instances and examples of its meaning and intention among the Nations of the World, is to deny that he dyed for us at all.

That whereas it is fr•quently affirmed, in the Scripture, th•ir Christ dyed for us, and for our sins, &c. to deny that he dyed and suffered in our stead, undergoing the death whereunto we were obnoxious, and the punishment due to our sins, is; if we respect in what we say or believe▪ the constant use of those words in the Scripture, the nature of the thing it self concerning which they are used, the uncontrolled use of that Expression in all sorts of Writers, in expressing the same thing, which the instances and examples of its meaning and intention among the Nations of the World, is to deny that he dyed for us at all.