( 287 ) 3. The Execution is partly by temporal .chaftifements in this life ( which antecede folemnJudgement ) and partly, the eter- nal Reward and punifbment c For the former,I have Paid enough before. Theymanifeftly accufe all the penal Caftigations of the Elea:, of injuftice : if they had fully obeyed or fatisfied in Chrift : and if they were perfectly Abfolved and pardoned be- fore. And it is a charging that onGod which he abhorreth in his Word, to fay that the Reafon why the Reprobate were damned , was not for refufing a Redeemer, or for not performing the Con- ditions prefcribed,that they might have had part in that fufficient price of Rantoul, but it was meerly for finning againft the unre- medied Law of Works, and as' the Devils do perifh, as having no Remedy, nor any expiatory facrifice that ever was offered for them. And that all the Reafon of the-Adjudging the Elea to heaven, is,taken from their being abfolutely juftified or abfolved in Chrift, and having a Right to heaven by weer Decree and Purchafe, and not upon aly Conditional Promife after, nor hecau(e they Were Faithful in a very hale. Luk. t 9. 17 This Do6trine fo -contradi- eteth Chrifts Judgement and Reward (which he give:h to every rnan,and according to hisWorks ) that both of them cannot be Juftified. 4. The other part of Chrifts KinglyPower, is to be above his own Laws; though not to difpence with themwithout a valuable confideration ( which he will not do) yet to Relax them by Re- mitting fins,upon a valuable confideration,This Power bath God exercifed in Enafting the Lawof Grace, or granting the Promife of pardonofall fins againft the former Laws, on condition ofour accepting Chrift and Grace. The forefaid Doctrine denyeth this Conditional Remiffion,and difableth God from making any fuch, becaufe the thing is Abfolutely our own before. Thus we fee how it would unthrone Chrift, feigning, him to make all to be ours fo abfolutely on the Crofs that he cannot give them out to us as Reaor on conditional Promifes,backt with penalties threatned. that is , on terms, and by wayes that are be- feeming a King and Governor of the world , and Judge of all men , nor as ,may be fitted to promote the ends -of Govern ment& 1. And
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