(25I) Obferve alto, that if all this were denyed ( that Pardon and Juflification are Ads of Chrift asKing) and if we granted that they are Acts of God the Father, and not of the Mediator , yet we {hall confute eternal Juftification as an Immanent aft, thus Ju- ftification, Abfolution, Pardon, are ads of God as Redor : God was not Redor from eternity ; therefore, uftification and Par- don are not ads that were in God fromEternity. The Major is pall gallon. The Minor is proved thus : A Ruler and Subjeas to be ruled,are Relatives, and exift together ; one cannot be be- fore or without the other. But God hadnot fubjeds from eterni- ty to be Ruled, certainly not man , ( unlefs all creatures co-exift withGod, not only inEternity, butfrom eternity) therefore, &c. Argument 2. Where there is no actual guilt, there can be no actual Remiffion or Juftification. But from eternity, or the time ofChrift, there was no actual guilt on any that did not then exift ( or were not then conceived) therefore frometernity, or from the time ofChrifisdeath, there could beno actual Juftificationor pardon of fuck. The Major is proved by thedefinitionofRemifsion or Juftifica- tion, which ever contains guilt as the thing deftroyed thereby. All Remifsionor Juftification is a Remifsion of force guilt , or a Ju- flification againft or from Tome guilt, real ( in Conftitutive Ju- ftification ) or charged ( in fentential Juftification) therefore actual Remifsion mutt be of aaual guilt. Remifsion is a diffol- ving the Obligation topunifhment. Guilt is the Obligation to punifliment I therefore. For the Minor , that therecould be noaaual guilt on us from Eternity is paft doubt. Noryet at Chrifts death, when we were not in being. We were no fubjects or Entities, and therefore had no Accidentsor Modes. To this two things are anfwered ; i . That from eternity our guilt had an Efe cogniturn. I Reply, 1. That is not to Be guilt : 2. That efe, if anywhere, was in God , for there was noother fubject of it But it was not guitt,but knowledge that was in God, 3. There was no efe ab aterno, but God himfelf. But God him- felf was not guilt, 4. To be Copitum, makes a new etre in man, (viz. Rationis) where the Object caufeth, But it makes no new of in God, with whom Objects have no Caufation : therefore guilt'had no true e le tst Cagnittu from eternity properly fo called; Kk2 but
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