C :74. S fterf its & tnitnishtnents do not null juflifcation. H p; too 2. As for loch fins , as we may fuppofe , if committed , would ipfo fade, as they fay , forfeit the transgreffour of the Date of Juflification, & deftroy aall.intereft in Chrift , in the Covenant of grace, & fo transferre them in- to their former Rate ofNature , while they were under the Curfe; as being fins, inconfrflent with a Bare of Grace & Reconciliation With God ; fuch as the fin again(' the Holy Gho(t, or of full & final Apoftafie as for fwch fins, I fay , the faithfulnefs of God, Mediation of Chrift , & the Operation of the Spirit ofGrace, are, as it were , engadged , to keep the Iuflified from filling into them ; as all the Arguments , proving the perfeverance of the , Saints , do abundantly evince. 3. Though every fin , being a transgreflion of the Law of God , which Dill reraineth in force to oblige the beleever , as all others , unto obedience in all points , cloth , in its own nature , deferve God's wrath & curfe, actor ding to the threatning & penalty ofthe Law : yetxthefe fins do nòtannul the flare of juflifi ation , nor interupt it (I) becaufe notwith(landing thereof, all their former fins , of which they were pardoned , remaine pardoned , & do not bring them againe under the curfe, & their Right to the Inheritance remaineth.firme, through lefus Chriff. (z) Becaufe all thefe after Eris were virtually pardoned , & their obligation to the fuffering of the'penalty upon theaccountof thefe, virtually removed, in their IuD:fieation; for therein was there a legal fecurity laid down & given, that all future fins should not adually bring them under the curie, or into the (late of condemnation : & this is much more , than what was before their actual doling with Chrift , & being thereby brought into an elate of juftification , for though it may be laid there wasOfufficient fecurity laid -in in the Covenant of Redemption betwixt lehovah & the Mediator', concerning the Non - perishing of the EleFt; Yet this fecurity was hid & under ground , lying in the unchangable, pnrpofes of God ; in the Fathers Eledlion of them, & giving of them to the Son to be redeemed in the Son's undertaking for them , & in due time be- coming fin & a curie for them , & fo taking on their debt, & making full& compleet fatisfaftion therefore; And this fundamental & remote Right, ( as it may be called ) could not be pleaded by thetnfelves. But after they haveclofed with Chrift , and are brought into à ftate of juftification , their Right appeareth above ground, and the fecurity is laid open in the Cove- nant of Grace , whereby they are in cafe to plead their virtual pardon, to be made aElual, & the promifes to be made good , according to the Gofper termes , & after the'Gofpel-method. And thus. 3. Not only dot h the law's threatnings (peak to them , as shewing what de jute only they may look upon us due unto them , & -trot declaring what shall eventually befall them , or that eventually they shall fall under the eternal cur- , fe; for in a feule, that is true even of all the eleEt not yet juftified, as was laid.; but they have a legal ground & Right in the Covenantof Gra- ce , fecuting there from Condemnation , & they have ac *fs' & ground in Law to plead this Right & fo to plead for actual Pardon in the termas4 . & according to the tnethode ofthe Gofpel: I do not fay, that the jutliebd while lying in fn , without making application to lelus Chrift, & aétíng fadth on him, in order to; pardon, have ground to plead for actual pardon, for
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