we are freed from it, for every Believer is freed and juffified, (126) from any charge that can be brought againft hit as to damnation or deftruaive-punifhment. 2. And their right to a future delive- rance is more full then the aduardeliverance yet is. 3. It is our own fin that bath made fufferings neceffary to our good. 4. As long as Chrift hath made lure for us in heaven a far greater glory thenwe loft,and which will make all thefe fufferings tobe none,we may well fay, that he hath done the office of a Saviour perfectly, though the time be not yet come for our full deliverance. Conchs. 33. Though in our firft J uftification and pardon , we are acquit from all fin part, and nothing lyeth againft us , and fo that juffificationmay be laid to be perfedand have no degrees, yet I conceive that our pardon is not abfolutely perfeft as it fhall be at the laft. My reafons are i. As to the continuance of it, it is yet but conditional ( how certain foever ) : and that is not fo perfeet, as it will be when the Condition is performed : even our perfeverance,which is the Condition of perfevering Juftification. 2. We have many a thoufand fins yet to be pardoned were not pardoned at firft, as not then exifting. 3. And all the fore- laid penalties to be remitted actually , by the removal of them. 4. And the great abfolution at judgement is behinde. Concha. 34. It is not only affliJion as fuck, but punifhmentas punifhment, that is neceffary both to Gods great ends in govern- ing the world, and alto in particular, to the belt Saint on earthfor the rjght ordering of his life. Meer afflietion is no ad ofa Gover- nor, as filch, but punifbment is. And if men fuller never fo much, and knownot that it is for fin, and fromGods difpleafure, and to fcourge them to obedience, it will not do them that good that it is fent for, and mull be done. IfChrift had deliveredBelievers from being under any threat, or lyable to any execution of a threatning for fin, then he had brought them to be from under Law,and then he had fet them fromunder Government, and then he had fet them from under God, and thenhe had either made them Gods, or elfe bruits uncapable of Government. Whiles Saints are im- pedal., and while they are under Government , Godwillgovern them by the'due means and infcruments ofGovernment, Laws ha- ving Rewards and Punifbments annext. How and by what Laws he Governeth the Glorified, and An- gelical nature , I pretend not to know ( further then that the knowledge
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