( 2 50 ) bath Authority and Right as. Mediator to grant Pardon of fin and that he Bath made a Conditional General Adof Pardon hereupon. So that both the parts of the Major are proved toge- ther. And the nature of the thing proves it to all men that know what Pardon and Juftification is. It is the Pardon of the breach ofpublike Laws that we are rpeaking of, and not of private tref- paffes or damages. Towhomfoever it belongs tomake Laws, to him it belongs to Remit offences againft thofe Laws : But to the Supream Power, or Legiflator it belongs tomake Laws : therefore. To whomfoever it belongs to Judge men for breach of Laws , to him it belongeth fententially to Jufttfiehim that is Juftifiable. But to Chrift asJudge it belongeth to Judgemen : therefore,&c I will recite one text more that containeth all that I have faid. eAU. 5. 3o, 3-1. The God of our Fathers rayed up 7efus , Whomye flew and hangedon a Tree. Him loath od exalted With his right hand to be a Prince ands Saviour,far to give Repentance to Ifrael, andforgivenefs of fns,and we arehis witneffes of thefe things, and ja U the holy Ghtq,vohom God loath given to them that obey him. liere we have firft his facrifice,then his Refurrthion, then his Ex- altation and Kingdom, he is become a Prince and a Saviour, or a King-Saviour,or Lord-Redeemer : Where note, that all his work of laving us was not on the Crofs : that prepared for the reft which was to follow. He was exalted to be a Saviour andPrince. And then we have the end or effe6t of his being exalted to be a Prince and Saviour, which is to give Repentance and F orgivenefs of fin. As a Prince he doth this, becaufe it is neceffarily a work ofSoveraign Power, or of a Ruler or King As a Saviour he doth it, becaufe the thing wrought in this work is our falvation, to the perfeaion of which it alfo tendeth. Havingproved the Major Propoiltion, I need not lay much to the Minor it being granted, for ought I can underftand, by all that 1 have to-do with; that Chrift doth not pardon and juilifie by fatisf i r rneritiagjireL;11y: For as to fatisfying it is pail que- on And Merit, is a remote caufe, moving ( to (peak after the manner of men, as we rnuft do ) the Principal Agent : and fo upon Chrifts Merits , as Soveraign did deliver up all to his Son as Saviour andSoveraign and gave himPower,to forgive fins. Obferve _
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