Bead II. Jujli}c:atirm. ~. 3 t .T hefir.ft par ticular benefit,that a finner hath by his unirnz with Chrill; is juj1ijication.; for being un ited tu Chrift he · • · bath communion w~ th him in his righ1ecufne(:. 1 Cor. i.3o. But of him are ye in Cbrifl Jifus, who ifGod'is made unto UJ <UJifdonz and righteo,uj1ujj. He ll:ands no-more condemn– ea; but JU!li:ijed before God, as being in C.hrijl, Rom.v)ii. t. There iJ therefore no«.JJ no condemnation. to them '"J.Jhich are in Chrifi Jcfru. The branches hereof are, pardon of fin, and perfona i acceptance. _ 1jl, His iins areparfloned~ the gnilt of them is removed. The bond obliging him. to pay his aebt, is cancelled. God· the F.<ither takes the pen_, dips it in the blood' of his Son , croffeth the finner"s accounts, and blot~eth them out ·of his· debt-book. The finner, . out of Chrifi,' is' bound over to the wrath of God•: he is under an o\;iigation in law, to go 10 the prifon of hell; ana there to li e till he 'has paid the utmofl farthing. This ~rifeth from the terrible fan~on with which the law is fe nced. which is no !efs than tieatb, Gen. ii. 17. So that tl:ie finner,' p.dling the bounds afligneJ him, is as Sbimei, in another cafe, a man of de~th, 1 Ki~;gs ii. 42. Bu~ now, being united tos;hdfi, God faith, D_eliv'er him fr om going do<Vm la the pit; 1 hove found ' a ranfomt . Job·xxx. " 2 4· The fehtence of condemnation is ·reverfcd, . the believer is ab.foi ved. and> fet beyond t_he rea~h. of the condemning law. His fins, which fometimes w~refit be– fore the Lord, Pf.1T. xc. 8. fo th at thH could not be hid, God now takes and cafh them all behil;d hi! bqd ) Ifa.xxxvii~ . 17. yea, be cajlJ tJgm into the depthr of the fta, Micah vi i. 19. \Vhat falls into a brook may be got up again; but wha t is cafi into t~e [ea ~annat be recovere~. Ay, .but there are fome fhaflow places m the· fea : true, out the1r tiQS ate not caft in there ,. but into the depth of the fea ; and the· depths of th.e fea, are devou.ring'd(pthi; from wh-ence they , ffiall never .come forth agarn. But, what if they do not ' fiok ? He wi il cafl them in with force; fo that they iliall go to the gr'oDnd, andfi!Jk aJ lead ln the mighty waterJ of the Redeeme r's blood. They are not only fo rg iven, but (org,ot- · ten, .Jcr. xxxi. 34· ltVJillforgivetf;~iriniquity,and !will~' rememher their fin no more And tbo' their after -fins do, in themfdves, deierve eternal wrath, and do aCluaJly make tnem liable to temporal Hrokes, and fatherly chaftifements; tJ 2 ' ~ ac•
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