'146 . The Promife of 'JuJUfication. 2crually and perfonally jufiified. Thus they ,are rc– ilored to life in the eye of the law : which kind of life, received by faith, is everlafiing ; forafmuch as, according to the covenant, the curfe can never return 'Upon them, for fhorter or longer time, Ifa. liv. 9• ' As I have fworn that the waters of Noah fhould no · · more go over the earth ; fo haxe I fworn that I would not be wroth with ' thee.' · Of the promife of jufiification, there are two bran– ches; nameLy, the ptomife ofpardot~, and of acceptance. , Ftrfl, The promife of pardbn of fin, whereby the guilt of eternal wratb is done away, Heb: :viii. 12. ' Their -fins and their iniquities will I remember no more.' The fins 'of the eleCl: being, in the eterna1 ' covenant, imputed to and laid on Chrifi : ~ho be– coming legally one with them, transferred their debt on himfclf, and undertook to pay the fame : a pro· mife was thereupon made of pardon to them, and each one of them. Now a!Toon as they are myfiical– ly and really united to him by faith, by means of that union, they have communion with him in his righ– teoufnefs : whereupon his perfect fatisfaetion i$ im~ . puted to them; and upon the account of it alone, and not any deed of theirs whatfoever, the free prom~fe is accomplifhed, and the pardon actuallY. befiowed on them, according to the eternal agreemeQt, Eph. i. 7· ' In vi horn \Ve have redemption through his blood, the forgivenefs of fins, according to the riches of his grace,' Here is life from the dead ; a pardon put into the hand of the condemned man, . difanning the law of its condemning power, and death of its fling, as to .him ; caufing him ro lift up his head fi·om off the .block, and go away with acclamations of praife of the King's mercy, and his Son's merit. And ·it is eternal life: For all his fins paft, prefent, and to come, are pardoned as-. to the guilt of eternal wrath i: a 'forma~l re·
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