CHAP. V. Prop. 2. Christs sufferings for Mans Sins, were not the Idem, the same thing which the Law threat∣ned to us: Or the fulfilling of the threatening; and discharge of the debt it self in kind. But the Aequi∣valens, or Value, freely paid by him (obliged only by his own sponsion,) and accepted by God, for our not fulfilling the Law as to its Precept and Commina∣tion.
SOme think this Question whether Christ paid the Idem or Tantundem? To be not Tan∣tidem, not worth the disputing. Mr. O, (against me) seems stifly to maintain it to be the Idem, but yielding it to be not per eundem, and the Law to be Relaxed so far, doth yield as much as I need, and gives up the whole cause; and made me think it a useless labour to reply to him. As small as this Question seems, I think the main Body of Divinity stands or falls according to the Resolution of it. For understanding the mean∣ing of it, you must know, 1. That it is not of the quality of the suffering that we enquire: Whether Christ suffered the same kind of pain, or loss that we should have suffered? Nor of the quantity of Torment, for intension or duration? For I am willing to believe as much identity in