If one pay a sum that fully exhausts the debt of such a broken man, upon condition the broken man say Amen to the paying thereof, otherwise it shall be as not payed, he must take up the sum again, if the broken man refuse to say Amen to it, for if he take it not up again, but it be payed and fully satisfy for, and exhaust the debt, the mans debt is payed, and the Creditor in justice cannot exact one farthing from the broken man. Now nothing given to the Justice of God by way of satisfaction for the sins of unbelievers, was ever repeated or taken back again by Christ. Nay but, say they, the ransom was not payed at all for Judas, but only, upon condition that he believe: but he never believed, and therefore it was never payed for Judas. Answ. This is that we say,1 that Christ gave no real ransom at all, for the sins of Judas by way of satisfaction. But they say that there is as well a ransom payed for all the sins of Judas (final unbelief excepted) to free him, in justice from eternal strokes, as for all the sins of Peter to free him, only it is not accepted of by the Creditor, because Judas, by faith, assented not unto the bargain: But assenting or not assenting, accepting, or not accepting,2 that are posterior to the payment, are nothing up or down to the completeness and perfection of the satisfaction made for the exhausting of Justice, for Justice receives not two satisfactions or ransoms for Judas, one upon the Cross from Christ, another in Hell, from Judas, yea and it must follow, that real payment was made to Justice for all the sins of Judas, upon the Cross, and that he suffers for none of them, in Hell, but for only final unbelief, which is no sin against the Covenant of Works and the Justice thereof, but only and formally against the Covenant of Grace, so that as yet satisfying of ⟨p. 12⟩Divine Justice for sins, must be halved and parted between Christ, and Judas, which the Scripture teaches not. Also the Father either accepts the ransom of Christ, because it is intrinsically, and of it self sufficiently satisfactory: or because Judas does believe it is so; The latter cannot be said, for believing adds nothing to the intrinsical sufficiency of the satisfaction, as not believing diminishes nothing from the sufficiency thereof;
If one pay a summe that fully exhausts the debt of such a broken man, upon condition the broken man say Amen to the paying thereof, otherwise it shall be as not payed, he must take up the summe again, if the broken man refuse to say Amen to it, for if he take it not up again, but it be payed and fully satisfie for, and exhaust the debt, the mans debt is payed, and the Creditor in justice cannot exact one farthing from the broken man. Now nothing given to the Justice of God by way of satisfaction for the sins of unbeleevers, was ever repeated or taken back again by Christ. Nay but, say they, the ransome was not payed at all for Judas, but only, upon condition that he beleeve: but he never beleeved, and therefore it was never payed for Judas. Answ. This is that we say,1 that Christ gave no reall ransome at all, for the sins of Judas by way of satisfaction. But they say that there is as well a ransome payed for all the sins of Iudas (finall unbeleef excepted) to free him, in justice from eternall stroaks, as for all the sins of Peter to free him, only it is not accepted of by the Creditor, because Judas, by faith, assented not unto the bargain: But assenting or not assenting, accepting, or not accepting,2 that are posterior to the payment, are nothing up or down to the compleatnesse and perfection of the satisfaction made for the exhausting of Justice, for Justice receives not two satisfactions or ransomes for Judas, one upon the Crosse from Christ, another in Hell, from Iudas, yea and it must follow, that reall payment was made to Justice for all the sins of Iudas, upon the Crosse, and that he suffers for none of them, in Hell, but for only finall unbeleef, which is no sin against the Covenant of Works and the Justice thereof, but only and formally against the Covenant of Grace, so that as yet satisfying of ⟨p. 12⟩Divine Justice for sins, must be halfed and parted between Christ, and Iudas, which the Scripture teaches not. Also the Father either accepts the ransome of Christ, because it is intrinsecally, and of it self sufficiently satisfactory: or because Iudas does beleeve it is so; The latter cannot be said, for beleeving adds nothing to the intrinsecall sufficiency of the satisfaction, as not believing diminishes nothing from the sufficiency thereof;
- 1Conditional payment made for the sins of Judas, is no payment at allConditionall payment made for the sins of Judas, is no payment at all
- 2Accepting or not accepting, assenting or not assenting to the payment, are not causes of the sufficiency of the payment made to justice.
