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Comfortable
Prefer
:wig-es
aping
defperation.
439
deliuered
fromfsnne,jhoarld
line
in
righteouf
es.
Seeing then our
fines
were
laid vpon Chrifl, and
feuerely
punifhcd in
him,
God
in
his iuflice
will
not
infli& any
more punifhments
vp-
onthefaithfull,but
will
pardon and forgiue
them;
which
pardon
and
forgiuene%
is
a
worke
of
his
iuflice
that
well
of
R01.5-11.
n
hismercie; and therefore it
is
faid,Kom.3.2,5
fet
forth our Sauiour
Chrili
to
be
a reconciliation
through
faith
in
his bloud, to
declare his righteoufneJe
by
the
forgiuenrffe
of
finnes
that
aregaffed
through the
patience
of
God. z
6. To
[hew
at
this
time his ri
:hteotsfnef
e
that
bee
rniÿht
be
is:f
,
and a
íu/1 :
-
1.1011n
,
g.
fer
of
him
who
is
of
the
faith
o
f
Pefrss.
So
it
is
faid
i
John
1;9. i.Io
that
Ifwe
acknowledge
our'inner,
beefs
faithfull
and
iufl
tofor-
sine
vs
our
fines
and
to clean
fe vs
from
all
vnr:ghteoufneJP.
So
that
Gods
righteoufnes
is
declared
in
the
forgiuenes
of
fins,
and
hee
fheweth
his iuflice in
iuflifying
tholewho
are
of
the
faith
of
Iefus,and
in
pardoning
all
their
offences.
And
there-
.
fore
if
wee will beleeue
in
our
Sauiour
Chrifl and
bring
forth
the
fruites
of
our
faith
in
vnfained repentance, wee
need
not
feruilely
to
feare
Gods
iufiice,
nay wee
may
be
af-
fured,
that
becaufe hee
is
iuti,hee will in
Chrifl pardon and
forgiue our
fumes,
and
newer
infli& any
punifhment, which
by
them
in
our
felues
we haue
iufttly
deierued.
But that
the
equitie hereofmay
bee
more
manifef+,
we
are
§.Sec`i.2
to
confider
that
our
finnes in
the
Scriptures are
called
debts;
That
our
fines
for the
Lord
in our creation
lent vnto
vs
the rich
talents
of
are debts,and
his graces,
to
be imploied for the
Petting
forth
of
his
glorie,
to
before
of
all
which
wee watlefully mifpent
and
brought
our
felues
in-
? aid.
to
fuch
extreamebeggerie,,thatwee
were
altogether
unable
to
pay
to God
the
leaf+
part
of
that
which
we
owed,nor to
render account vnto our
Lord
and
mnafler,
how
in
any
good
-fort we had
bellowed
his
rich treafures;
and therefore in his
.iuflice he
lent
his fergeant
death
to
arefl
vs, and
to
cafi
vs
in
the
prifon
of
vtter darknes,there to
remaine
in
the cuflody
of
Satan our
mot}
malitious
iailor,till
wee
had
fully
di
fch
arged
,-our
debt
and
made
full
fatisfa&ion
to his
iutlice
;which when
we
were
altogether
vnable
to
performe,
it
plea-fed
our
Sa-
-
uiour Chrifl
in
his infinite
loue
towards
vs,
to-
become
our
:_fuertieg,
And
.to take
vpon him
the
anfFtering
of
our
debt,
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