01, (.227) but he made a purgation , as the words are exprefly. 2. They whomwe in this oppofe, deny not but that it is the fin it felt, or power of it, as well as the guilt, that is purged away through the blood of Chrift : yet none will fa3i that fin it fell, or the ftrength of it is purged away, before weare born or believe, but only that Chrift made a Purgation,which fhould in time, being applyed, ef- fectually , and actually purge us from fin. 3. The text having reference to the Jewifh facrifices, doth plainly fpeak of Chrifts blood as a price or facrifice ; and only intendeth that he did make a fuflicient Purgation of our fins, quoadprecisin, velfa'rtfic'i per- feElionern : as far as concerned him as facrifiCer ofhimfelf. He did all that was his part on the Crofs todo ; though there remained more to do in the application and conveyance of Right to par- ticular perfons, by his Word and Spirit : If the High Prieft had offered a facrifice for the fins of an obifinate impenitent finner, he had not therebymade a legal effedual Purgation of his fin fuppofing thefinner, at leaft, to declare his Diffent and Impeni- tency. Yet it is fo much that Chrift bathdone before we believe , that we may feeReafon why it maybear the name ofPurgation or Reconciling ; becaufe it is a Pardon fufficiently purchafedby him, and granted freely by God to all that Refu'fe it not when it is offered them. If a Kings Son pay a Ranfom for ico. Traytors and hisFather grant and feal them a pardon, is it not fit or tol- lerable language to fay,the King bath pardoned thefe men, or the Prince bath bought their pardon ? Yet it is no actual pardon, till they content, if we fuppofe it to be granted on Condition of their Confent or Acceptance. And fo reafonable, fo naturally necef- fary is that Condition, that it is not ufed to be expreffed in ,Par- dons or the like Grants, but implyed ; But whether expreffed or not it is in the nature of the thing molt commonly fuppofed And if it did run in an Abfolute form, yet is Acceptance ftill im- plyed as an unqueftionable Condition, and as to it, the Pardon is not intended to be Abfolute. Yet iffuch a Pardon were brought to a Traytor at the Gallows, and he refufe it , andbe hanged ; men would fay, that The King or State did Pardon loch a man,6Pt he wilfully refuted it. I know no other texts that have neer fo flrong appearance of favouring their caufe,as thefe cited, efpecially the laft, and there- fore (hall not need to mention any more ; but come to the Do- drinal difference. Gg z And
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