The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

If there be such a compensatory Price paid for Sin, where is free Remission? Free Remission cannot stand with plenary Satisfaction; what is fully paid cannot be at all remitted.

I answer; It cannot, if there be a solution by the Debtor, but it may, if there be a satisfaction by a Surety; it cannot, if that Surety were of the Debtors own providing, but it may, if he were of the Creditor's ⟨p. 246⟩procuring; it cannot, if the Surety's payment be irrecusable, but it may, if the Creditor's acceptance be free; it cannot, if the remission were to the same person who makes satisfaction, but it may, if one person make satisfaction and another find remission. And thus it is in this case; our debts were paid to God, but by a Surety Jesus Christ, and this Surety was of God's own sending, and that his payment went for ours was of God's own Grace: and hence it comes to pass that God hath full satisfaction, and we free remission, and this without any repugnancy; for Christ who satisfied had no remission, [Greek or Hebrew], Rom. 8. 32. God did not spare or bate him a farthing, and we who are remitted make no satisfaction; all our Tears, Prayers, Sorrows, Services pay not a mite to divine Justice. Why should corrupt Reason mutter as if Satisfaction and Remission, which are matches in Scripture, were inconsistencies in Nature? What saith God, Levit. 4. 31. the Priest shall make an atonement, there's satisfaction, and it shall be forgiven, there's remission? What saith the great Apostle, Rom. 3. 24. We are justified freely by his grace, there's remission, through the redemption that is in Christ, there's ⟨p. 247⟩satisfaction? Take both in three words, [Greek or Hebrew], God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you,