o 280 After -fists & punishments do not null juflification. C ii A P. Zo, and yet,Afflic`tions do that Z. Can 4: 17. The curie will not conforme us uuto Chrifl;yetaffidiorìs will, and do. Rpm. S: 29. (5) Even as to the rem. nants of the body of death , that caufe the godly to groan , and cry out. Miferable man &c. if we confider them , as an .Affliétion, we cannot fay, that they are a remanent part of Law-vengeance , of Law -punishment , or of the curie threatned in the Law ; for then they should be effects of God's hatred towards the Perlons , & of pure vengeance and of juridical, & iu. dicial Wrath & Anger , and were not capable of Santification to their fpi- ritual advange ; and Beleevers, upon this account , could not be faid to be delivered from the Law , and dead to that , wherein they were formerly held , as they are Isom. 7: 6. for they , who are under the Curie, and tinder fuch an efpecial part or Effect thereof, cannot but be under the Law , and that ; as a curfing Condemning Law. Gal. 3 : to. Nor could the Apoftle in ferre , as he doth , after the mentioning of the fad wrehlings, that the god- ly have , with the body of death. (Zorn. 7:15. &c. that there it now therefore no Condemnation to them, that areinChriflRZom. S: r. for this would not fol- low from their being really & properly under fuch a great part of the Curie. Sure , this cannot but be derogatory unto the perfect SatisfaCtion made by Chrift ; feing hereby there is , in fome meafure , a SatisfaCtion made unto the juhice of God : and it was the end of Chrifì:'sfuffering & fatisfadion, to deliver his people from the curfe of the Law, in whole,, and in part, & from that penalty threatned in the Covenant of works. Chrift was made a curie for us, and thereby did redeem us, not in part only , but wholly, from the curie of the Law : and this penal Law Mr. Baxter mutt underhand . 127. Confef. or he fpeaketh not to the purpofe. Nor can I fay with him ibid. p. 119. that every threatning is it in one fenfe, der the execution in another, that is commonly called thecurfe of the Law : for the execution of the Law upon any perfon, is inconfiftent with loving - kindnefs towards that perfon ; butfois not every threatning, nay nor the execution thereof upon beleevers, as we fee Pfal. 89: 30,31,32,33 . Nor could thefe executions of threatnings be Paid to flow from Love, contrate to Revd. 3: 19. Heb. i2: 6. Pray. 3: 12. for the- re is no fatherly Love , in executing of the Curie. C H A P. X X I. Juflification is- by Faith : what this Faith is, Sc how it is wrought. Aving thus fpoken unto, & laboured to clear up the Native & Tome caufes of this life of Iuftification ; we come , in the next place, to fpeak to the following part of the Text. Where the way , how this life of-juftìfication is brought about and attained, is pointed forth, when it is faid. The full shall live by faith. Faith , we fee , is here mentio- ned, as that which intereffeth us in thisprivilege of life. Whcaie we fee f;: a. That
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