well that has confused me tabetha

thought it was as redeye said but i aint that hot on this stuff!!so i have got a jbl amp that is just to run bass speakers i am running two subs it is a 2 channel amp but i just wired each one to - and+ on each channel for each speaker?so say set up of my amp is as follows
+ - + -
1 2 3 4
should i wire one sub to number 1 and number 4 and the other sub to number 2 and 3?? currntly wired one sub to 1 and 2 one sub to 3 and 4??