C H'A P. ao. After fins & punishments do not null jrrfti f at t i. 2'7 fag, 52,) & after fatisfacrlion given jt:flified fir(l him , as Sponfc r , & then the world for his fake : thus God forgave thofè all the debt, who yet perish by taking their fellow fervant by the throat. Here is a jufiifrcation both ab- folute & conditional ;. Here is pardon & no pardon : Here is a juftification- of all the Reprobat : Here isa juftification of perfons not in being & prior to & without all faith. This therefore is not the jollification, whereof the Scriptures (peak, as himfelfproveth, in his Confejion, C H A P. X X. The flate of juftification remaineth notwithflanding . of after tannes, & punishments; Or further clearing up of this life of Juflification', asto its Continuan- ce , we shall remove two objeóions, that may feem to nand in the way of the truth , hitherto cleared. For it would feem , that Juflifi cation is not fucha cortrinueing uninterruptible ftate , as it was fail to be, upon this double account, 6rf . That the finnes, which Beleevers , who are juflified , do commit , efpecially loch as are of a more hainous & crying Nature , _do break off this hate of favoure & reconciliation , feing they de- ferve even theleaft of them , God's wrath & curie, & fo expofethe ¡in- ner unto thejuft revenges of God ; which feemeth not to be confifent with a (late of JuIt fication. And then f condly as their frnnes deferve God's cur fe & wrath , fo the many sharp & fore aflliElions , which they are made to lye under , both are effects of the wrath of God , & fruites of the Curie ,'8z alto would fay,. that that flare is fuch , as can be broken off, or at lean is' not perfed, as it was fa id to be. Now for clearing of the truth , formerly a(ferted , & vindicating of the fame , from thefe two Objections , to which all others may be reduced , we shall propofe fome'few things to cott;ìderation. i. None will fay, that every fin of infirmity & weaknefs , which belee- vers commit doth or can cut them o! from the (late of jollification ; for then they should never remaine one day to end in that flare; for no man liveth , that frnneth not, & the Righteous fall (even times a day ; if the Lord should f(ricklymark iniquity , no man should (land; even-the bell of their arrcions are defiled with fin , and they cannot anfwere for one of a th ;tifand. So that either irmufl be faid, there is no (late of jufhfication, or that it is confident with fin in the jutlified : Juflification , though it take a:,vay all the guilt of by pall fins, and free the beleever from that obnoxiouf - nets to.the wrath & curie of God which they were formerly under; yet it preventeth not all future limes , nor cloth it put the beleever into a perfc& finlels liai t ; nay nor doth it kill any one fin , as to ins being, but only taketh away the guilt , offenfivenefs & the obligation to punishment , or the reatus p:Dnx, whereby the Inner is bound over unto the Pen -alts,
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