§. LXXXV.
To answer his Wish with another Wish; I heartily wish I were worthy to advise all Neonomians, all New Law Men, to be so hum∣b••e and good to themselves, as to peruse and learn the Sentiments of our Reformers from Popery, that made the Book of the Homilies, in which are many excellent Passages to uphold this Notion of Christ's paying a Price for us. In the first part of the Sermon of Salvation, they have these Heavenly Expressions, God provided a Ransom for us, that was the most precious Body and Blood of his own most dear, and best beloved Son, Jesus Christ, who, beside the Ransom, fulfilled the Law for us perfectly. And a little further they are more clear, saying, He for them paid the Ransom by his Death, he for them ful∣filled the Law in his Life; so that now in him, and by him, every true Christian Man may be called a fulfiller of the Law. O what can be more positive and plain! Is not here a rigid-proper Satisfaction, and that in the Notion of a Debt, calling it a Ransom? Nay, he paid their Ransom And what can be a more rigid Satisfaction, than fulfilling the Law (every tittle) for them in his Life, and paying a Ransom in his Death? O! that my Dear Kratiste would, by him∣self, a little blush at this, and what the Church of Scotland, in Knox