Against Socinus; the Son truly suffered according to the flesh, not the Deity
This part of Christian doctrine Faustus Socinus, most unhappy of men, attacked most vehemently of all in his books on our mediator and Savior the Lord Jesus Christ. Against him we set Hugo Grotius's most learned writing On Satisfaction, and the learned and orthodox notes of others on that writing, together with what the most learned Constantijn L'Empereur discusses on this argument against the Jews on Isaiah and elsewhere. And what the papal writers undermine here, see asserted after Luther everywhere and Calvin, Institutes 3.4.25-26, by the most noble theologian Antoine de Chandieu (Sadeel) and other orthodox writers who write well and solidly against human merits and satisfactions.
Moreover among the orthodox it ought least of all to be controversial: 1. Not a bare man, but the Son of God Himself suffered and died for us, not according to a bare and external denomination only, but in very deed and in the work itself. For just as the Son of God truly became man for our sake, so also the Son of God truly and in reality died for us.
II. From this it by no means follows that the Deity, or Christ according to the Deity, properly suffered and died. For it is one thing to ask who suffered and died for us, and another in which nature, or according to which nature, He properly died. If you ask about the person who suffered for us, I answer with Peter (Acts 3:15) that they killed the Author of life; and with Paul (1 Cor. 2:8) that they crucified the Lord of glory; and Acts 20:28 that God Himself acquired the church with His own blood; and Galatians 2:20: the Son of God loved me and gave Himself for me. But if you ask about the nature in which or according to which He suffered, I answer with Peter that He was killed according to the flesh (1 Pet. 3:18), suffered for us in the flesh (1 Pet. 4:1), and bore our sins in His body (1 Pet. 2:24). For the Deity is and remains of itself immortal and subject to no passion; and yet the passion is and is called the Son of God's own, because He suffered in His own body and poured out His own blood.
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Quam partem doctrinae Christianae omnium vehementissime impugnavit nimis infaustus Faustus Socinus libris suis de mediatore servatore nostro Domino Jesu Christo, cui opponimus eruditissimum scriptum Hugonis Grotii de satisfactione, aliorumque ad hoc scriptum notationes eruditas & orthodoxas, juxta cum iis quae doctissimus D. Constantinus L'Empereur in hoc argumento contra Judaeos disserit ad Esaiam & alibi. Et quod Pontificii hic labefactant, id assertum vide post Lutherum passim et Calv. L. 3 Inst. c. 4.25-26, a nobilissimo Theologo Antonio Sadeele aliisque orthodoxis scriptoribus, bene contra merita & satisfactiones humanas passim & solide scribentibus. Ceterum inter orthodoxos minime controversum esse debet: 1. Non nudum hominem, sed ipsum Dei Filium pro nobis passum & mortuum, non secundum nudam & externam denominationem duntaxat, sed revera & ipso opere. Sicut enim Dei Filius revera nostra causa factus est homo, ita etiam Dei Filius vere ac reipsa pro nobis est mortuus. Ex quo tamen II. minime sequitur, quod etiam Deitas vel Christus secundum Deitatem proprie passus & mortuus sit. Aliud enim est, si quaeras: quis pro nobis passus & mortuus sit? Et aliud: in qua sive secundum quam naturam proprie mortuus sit? Si enim de persona quaeras quae pro nobis passa est, respondeo cum Petro Act. 3:15 eos principem vitae interfecisse; & cum Paulo 1 Cor. 2:8 eos Dominum gloriae crucifixisse; & Act. 20:28 Deum ipsum ecclesiam proprio suo sanguine acquisivisse; & Gal. 2:20 Filius Dei dilexit me, tradidit se pro me. Si vero quaeras de natura in qua vel secundum quam passus est, respondeo cum Petro, occisum esse secundum carnem, 1 Pet. 3:18; passum pro nobis in carne, 1 Pet. 4:1; obtulisse peccata nostra in corpore suo, 1 Pet. 2:24. Deitas enim est & manet per se immortalis nullique passioni obnoxia: & nihilominus tamen est ac dicitur Filii Dei propria passio, quia in proprio corpore suo passus est, propriumque sanguinem suum effudit.