( 308 ) for not receiving Chrift as King : 7hefe mine enemies that would not that I filould Reign over them, bring hither,andflay!them before' me, 7olo. I. 12. As many as ;waved him, that is, believed, have power given them to be foils : And here as many as received him not as King, are condemned as enemies Nay, ,obferve in the rext in hand, that the reafon whyUnbe- lief is the condemning fin, is becaufe it is the privation of that faith which God bath made the condition of Juftification and Salvation. And therefore it is laid But he that behmeth not is condemned 4tIready, becaufe he hatb not belayed. There is much more in this becaufe he bah not belaved,thenif it had been barely beta:Y.1e he loath finned, or i, a 'inner though both may be true. For the Law ofworks condemneth every finner, limply as a fin- ner: The Law of Gracecondemneth every unbeliever and impe- nitent Rebel, that cbftinately to the end refufeth recovering Grace : And it is the latter that this Text fpeaks of : Elfe it would have faid, he is condemned already, becaufe he is a finner, or bath broke the Law of works. But force learned men tell me, to this , that unbeliefis fin, and therefore there is nocondemnation but by the Law of works which condemneth for all fin ? what need a New Law, tocondemn us for one fin or more, when the old condemneth for all ? Anfw. Though all unbeliefbe fin, yet all fin is not unbelief. And therefore we may well diftinguifh be- tween fin, as fin in general, and as this fin in fpecial which God bath, if final, excepted from pardon. The Law condemning all fin, prohibiteth not the Gofpel, to adjoyn a fpecial condemnation of one fin : Nor is it abfurcl that one duty fhould be doubly a dutyby thecommon Precept of the Law and a fpecial Precept of the Gofpel, nor that one fin fhould have a double Condemnati- on, common as a fin by the Law ofWorks ( though yet that will hold great difpute ) and fpecial, as the rejecting ofthe remedy by the Law of Grace. And it was not the prime intent of the LawofGrace, to condemnmen for unbelief ( which you fay the Law loth ) But to offer a remedy from former condemnation, the promife being the Principal part : but yet that this promife might not be flighted, it feemed good to the promifer to annex a threatning, that the refufal ofthe remedy might be doubly con. demned. And were it only the threatning of a non-liberation, non-remidion, it were a true and proper penalty,whenLiberation and
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