A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

4. Though God hath positively engaged his Justice to require satisfaction for mans offences, yea, and to stand upon punctilio's in the case; yet he hath not absolutely bound it to exact the satisfaction of the person himself who is the offender; or that it must be a personal satisfaction that is given, and no other: for, though it was not plainly expressed in the first Covenant, in so many words, nor had man any apprehension of any such thing, till God was pleased to reveal it to him, but fell under a fearful expectation of dying by the hands of God: yet it is certain that God did leave room for the interposing of a Surety, and the event, which is the best interpreter of Gods mind hath proved it to be so; for God hath accepted of one, which he would not have done over the head of his own Law; nay, it is certain that in that everlasting contrivance and engagement between the Father and the Son, there was a Surety laid in or provided, before this, Covenant was made with Adam: and as Paul speaks, Gal. 3. 17. so may we a little varying of his words: (and for ought I know the Text may ultimately refer to it) The Covenant of works which was made with Adam in time, could not disannul the Covenant of suretyship which was made between God the Father and God the Son in the days ⟨p. 50⟩of Eternity. Yea, and we may now find some tracks or footsteps of this Truth in the very nature of the first Covenant: it seems to intimate that there was some room left there for such a transaction by a surety, because God dealt with man at first in Adam as in a surety, and he it was that lost them; and all that ruin which is fallen upon his Progeny, refers to his first Transgression; hence therefore he might, for their recovery again, deal with th••, if he saw meet in another surety, who should restore them: it is true, it was all his pleasure, and he was free in it, but the way was consonant to equity, and that he hath so done, himself hath made to appear, by bringing in of this new way of life; Paul makes a kind of parallel between these, 1 Cor. 5.22. As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive: he is therefore called the second man, or second Adam.

4. Though God hath positively engaged his Justice to require satisfaction for mans offences, yea, and to stand upon punctilio's in the case; yet he hath not absolutely bound it to exact the satisfaction of the person himself who is the offender; or that it must be a personal satisfaction that is given, and no other: for, though it was not plainly exprest in the first Covenant, in so many words, nor had man any apprehendsion of any such thing, till God was pleased to reveal it to him, but fell under a fearful expectation of dying by the hands of God: yet it is certain that God did leave room for the interposing of a Surety, and the event, which is the best interpreter of Gods mind hath proved it to be so; for God hath accepted of one, which he would not have done over the head of his own Law; nay, it is certain that in that everlasting contrivance and engagement between the Father and the Son, there was a Surety laid in or provided, before this, Covenant was made with Adam: and as Paul speaks,