The doctrine of the covenant of redemption. Wherein is laid the foundation of all…

2 God the Father was not absolutely bound to accept any satisfaction at the hands of a surety. Had the Son offered it, yet his Suretyship could not have been authentic, but by the intervention of the Fathers voluntary consent. If God had said, and resolved, that fallen man should bear his own punishment, and there should be no substitute accepted in his room, who should have opposed him? he had Justice on his side; man was the sinner, yea and he did so say concerning the fallen Angels, and therefore ⟨p. 88⟩they are all of them reserved in everlasting Chains. The case was criminal, and an exchange of an offender for an innocent person to suffer in his room, is scarcely allowable among men, to be sure, the Judge may righteously refuse it. Nor did it flow from Gods natural love to mankind; for he had as much for the Angelical nature, and for the residue of men who were not included in this Covenant: it must then be of his free choice.

2 God the Father was not absolutely bound to accept any satisfaction at the hands of a surety. Had the Son offered it, yet his Suretiship could not have been authentick, but by the intervention of the Fathers voluntary consent. If God had said, and resolved, that fallen man should bear his own puni•hment, and there should be no substitute accepted in his room, who should have opposed him? he had Justice on his side; man was the sinner, yea and he did so say concerning the fallen Angels, and therefore ⟨p. 88⟩they are all of them reserved in everlasting Chains. The case was criminal, and an exchange of an offender for an innocent person to suffer in his room, is scarcely allowable among men, to be sure, the Judge may righteously refuse it. Nor did it flow from Gods natural love to mankind; for he had as much for the Angelical nature, and for the residue of men who were not included in this Covenant: it must then be of his free choice.