334 The Life of Faith. futfering, and thcii judged worthy of Heaven for his 'obe- dience : this is but to come up towards the truthbefore you are aware, and to confefs that neither of them is given us ire it fell; but in the effects, as being it felf paid to God to pro- cure chafe cffeds. But withali, the matter mull be vindicated from their un- found inventions, and it mutt be laid, that Chrif dyed not only for our fins of commifliion, but ofomilfon alfa ; and that he that is pardonedboth his fins of commiffion and omlion, is free from the punithment both of fence and lofs ; yea and is reputed as one that never culpably omitted any duty ; and confequently fell fhort of no rewardby filch omilfion : fo that there remaineth nomore neceífity of Rightcoufnefs in order to a reward where the pardon is perfed,. fave only (N. B.) to procureus that degree ofreward which mull be fuperadded to what we forfeited by our fn ; and which we never by any culpable omilfion defervcd to be dcnycd. And thus much we do not deny that fomewhat (even Adoption) which is more than racer Pardon and Jufification mutt confer on us. But withal!, as we hold not that the Sun mutt bring light, and fomewhat elfe mutt firft banith darknefs; that one thing mull cure death, and another caute life ; that fatisfaftion muff pro- cure the pardon of fins of omigion and commiflion, as to the Tana damni e9 r'enjws, and make us eflecmed and tiled as na inners, and then imputed obedience mutt give us right to that reward, which the plea deprived us of; fo,(N. B.) wemaintain that Chriffs fkfferings have merited our eternal falvation, and our Juflification and Adoption ; and that his obedience bath merited ourforgivenefs of tin : And that both go together, the merit of the oneand of the other, to procure all that we receive, and that the cffe 1s are not parcelled out as , they have deviled Though yet we believe that Chrins fuf- leriugs were paid toGod, as for our fins, to fatisfie lattice, and that in the Fa f ve obedience, it is firft f rirfactory, and then and thctefore seer° ones, and in the alive it is meetly meri, toriear:. 13. And the maintainers of the contrary opinion, befides all the forementioned evils, could never agree how much of hriffs Rightcoufnefs muff b; in their fade imputed : fame holding
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