Brown - BS2685 B86 1695

C H A P. zo. After-Pis & punishments do not null juii fication. 179' Juilification fo long as we live. But for anfwere , & to clear up the matter in hand more , wefay (i) Pardon of fins is not aclegnarly the fame with Juffi- fication ,, ítor the whole thereof, but at mo(f a part , or rather a partial of ! e tin juflification , the perfon isconflituted Righteous, and declared fuch, and thereupon hath his fins pardoned , and a Right to the purchafed reward ; and he is thus tmrde & declared Righteous, through the Mediators Surety- Righteoufnefs, imputed to him , and laid hold upon by faith. (2) When a perfon is juflified , he is ac once and for ever freed from the punishment due from the Law & from vindidtve juffice , for the broken Covenant : & the Obligation to punishment required by vindi ive jufffee , is taken away and diflolved; Chriff having fully bornethat Punishment , and fatisfied that de- mandof juffice, they , in & through him, are delivered from the Curfe, and the maledi&ory fentence. (3) Hence all their fufferings & afflictions here, being no part of the Curfe , nor of Satisfadion to divine vindictive juffice , nor of the Condemnation threatned , how ever they be materially evil , and Fatherly Chaffifinenrs or Punishments ; yet are no effects of Law- vengeance , nor parts of vindi %ive Punishment : and fo cannot give ground to inferrean imperfe& P -rrdon , or an imperfect Jollification. (4) Nor muf?' we call them any part ofthe Punishment , threatned by the Law, remaining yet unremoved; for that would make them parts ofthe Curfe; and yet Mr. Baxter Confeff. p. a z5 . conceiveth it fitteß to fay , that beleevers are freed frosts the corre, drarcnot older it , and addeth his reafons there : And the confe- quence is clear , hecaufe, what the Law threatneth , as fuch , belongeth to the Curfe ; for r he Law faith , Cur fed is every one , that continueth not in all things , which are written in the book of the Law to do then. Gal. 3: i o. Deut. z7: 26. And therefore every Punishment, that is a puaishrnentof the Laws muff be part of the Curie ; So if the Punishments , or Afflictions, that the Godly are now under , be part of the Curie, that is yet remaining unre- moved , or of the Punishment (as Mr; Baxter there p. 124. faith) it will inevitablie follow, that beleevers are yet under the Curie , and not wholly delivered there from ; and as to thefe outward afi &ions, many of the tru- ly Godly shall be more under the Curfe then feveral of the wicked : and if they be under any part of the Curfe , how can they be pronunced Bleffed? how can they be laid to be Redeemed from the Curie of the Law ? how can Chriff b faid to have been made a curfe for them ; how shall their fufler- ings not be a part of Satisfadion to Vindictive juftice ? Shall not they be in part Satisfiers for themf lees ? Shall not they then be beholden to Chriff, only in part ? How shall then there Affüeions flow from love, run in the channel of love , and work -out their good , through grace & love, if they be any real & formal parts of the Curfe' Shall not the curie then be a part of the bleffednefsof the Saints , and of their bequeathed portion, which they may owne as theirs , as well as they may owne life Shall not the cur- fe, or a part of the'curfe , feearat from the Love of God , and of Chritf ? What, I pray , will , if that doit not; and yet the Apoflle tels us IZom. a: 3;. &c. that affiliations cannot do it nor death it felt. How can any part of the carte work for us a far more exceeding & eternal weight of glory ? L 1 3 and

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