( 289) blefsings, thefe men deny all, and fay; It is Palle : If he teadttis what means we mutt ufe to attain Abfolution from guilt ofdeath, or Obligation to punifhment , and to get Right to heaven,they rife againft it, and fay, We have all this already: there is therefore no means to be ufed to obtain it. The like may be faid of other particulars. I hope by this time it appears how little the Lord Redeemer is exalted and honoured by their miftaken way of honouring him : and howmuch they detract from the honor of his Intercefsion, Teachingand Kingly Uovernment, his Laws, Judgements, Exe cutions and Rernitsions while they miftakingly afcribe all to his Death and Merits. -* And that all is not an exalting of Chrift and free Grace that pretends to be fo : And that no wayofmans de- viling is fit to exalt him,but only that way which his wifdombath determined of. * Tva,I have [hewed before how they alto aefiroy nits on the crofs,by making, bloIlit;'an or Pardon to be from eternity. SECT. V. N D thus I have (hewed you fomewhat ofthe face ofthefe Do6trines of the Antinomians. i. That we are J unified fromE:ernity. 2. That we are Juftified, Abfolved, or Pardoned at the time of Chrifts death, and fo before our being. 3. Or at leaft before our Converfion and believing.... That we our felves did in Gods eiteem, or in Law-fenfe, perfe;.ily, obey, or fuffer and fatisfie in Chrift : and fo that Chrift paid the fame thing that the Law required of us, and not only fatisfied for our not payment by giving fuch a facrifice to God as might be a valuable confide- ration, on which he might grant us the benefits , on fuch Condi- tions as are moil futable to his ends and honor : For though fome have faid, that it is not tantidem , a matter worth the con- tending about, whether Chrifts fatisfadion were the Idem or Tantundurn, yet I take it to be of no lefs moment then all thefe haynous Confequents beforementioned do declare , and even to fubvert the fubflance of Religion. The Idem is the perfea Obe- dience or the full Punifhment of man himfeif ; and in cafe of perfonal Difobedience, it is perfonal punilliment that the Law re- p quires
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