( 278) eth the earth as foveraign, by his Officers. t.,Leknahon faith, Exam. p. 680. That it is Gods moral Law that obligeth all men, and ordaineth corporal punifhments in this life,againft thofe that commit external faults, and that God executeth them by Magi- ftrates tideG. Sob. net: c. 8. p. 31. So that I mutt confeis, that if this Dodrine of our perfect folution in Chrift , and that of the debt it felf do not neceffarily overthrow all Government, I do not underftand it as I thought I had done. eArgument a o. If we are Juftified or Abfolved by Meriting or Satisfying in Chrift at his death, as aforefaid, thenGod would not have givenus the benefits by Conditional Promifes, and have added threatnings of damnation tous, ifwe rebel : But thus God bath done in his Word ; therefore, &c. Or thus : If it be jut" with God to convey the pardon of fin , and Right to falvation by Conditional Promifes, with threat- nings annext : then we are not Juftified or Abfolvedby fatisfy- ing or meriting in or by Chrift: but it is Juet with God, &c. there- fore, &c. The reafonof the Confequence is, becaufe (as is faid) to him that bath fatisfied or merited fully, the liberation or benefit is due ipro facto prefently and abfolutely : therefore tomake a Law which (hall impofe Conditions for the obtaining it and keep us without it till thofe Conditions are performed, and threaten us withdamnation ifwe perform them not, this kerns not equitable, when the thing was our own before, or prefently and abfolute-. ly due. As for them that fay, It is ;cafe that thele benefits are given upon any, Condition. When I have nothing elfe to do,I will anfwer them in folio : till then let this fuffice ; Read the Scriptures. Argument 11. If we areJuftified or Abfolved by fatisfying perfectly, or meriting inor by Chriff, as aforefaid then we are as righteous while we are Infidels, as when we are Chriftians;and while wicked, as when we are Godly. But the confequent is Anti- nomian : therefore fo is the Antecedent. We fpeakofRighteoushere,without equivocation, in the fame fenfe, viz.. as Relative, as oppotite to Guilty, and to having no Right to the Reward. The reafon of the Confequence is evident : No man can be more juft then the molt perfectly juft.He that bath in Chrift perfectly merited or fatisfied for all his fins, is molt per- fedly
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