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Prefirmatiaes
agaMfl delperation.
which
hee fully
difcharged in
as
exaé
a
manner
and
tneatiire
as
the
iuflice
ofGod
required
:
for whereas wee
are
bound
to
performe
perfea
obedience
to the law,
hee .performed
it
for
vs
;
where
as
wee
for our
difobedience
were
fubie61
to
the
fentence
of
condemnation, the
curie
of
the law,
and death
of
body
and foule
;
hee was
condemned for
vs
and bore
the
curie
ofthe
law, and died
in
our
flead-
an
nominious deatb,whereas wee
deferued
the
anger
of
God,i
and
to bee kept
prifoners in
the
graue
vnder
the dominion
ofdeath,he
endured his fathers wrathfull
difpleafure,
and
himfelfewas
for
a
time
held captiue
of
death
in
the
graue,
that
fo
he
might
reconcile
vs
to
his
father,
and
fet
vs
at
Lertie.
In
a
wordywhatfoeuer we
owed Chrill
difcharged,
whatfoeuer
wee
deferued
hee fuffered;
if
not
in
the
felfe
fame
punifhments, (for
hee could
not
fuffer
the
eternalr
torments
of
hell)
yet
in
proportion, the dignitie
ofhis
per-.
fön
giuing
value
vnto
his
temporarie' punifhments,
and-
making them
of
more
value and
worth, then
if
all
thé
world fhould
haue
fuffered
the
eternal]
torments offiell.
Se-
ing
therefore our
Sallow
Chrift hath
fullie
difcharged
our
debt,
and made
full
fatisfa6tion
to
his
fathers iuflice,
God
cannot
in
equitie
exaá
of
vs
a
-fecond
paiment, no
niore
then the creditors
may iufflie
require thar
his
debt fhould
twicepaid,onte ofthe
fuertie,and
a
gaine
ofthe
principal.
r
I
Neither
now hath
Gods
iuflice
anything to
flew
againft vs,
for
the law which was
the
handwriting
of
ordinances
which made
againfivs,
and
as
it
were a
bond, whereby
we
were
obliged
and
bound to
God
the father
-either
toper
forme obédience, or
to
vndergoe the
penalties
euen
euer-
falling
death
and
condemnation,
is
now cancelled,taken
a-
way
;
and
fallened
to
the
croF
of
Chrift,
as
the
Apoffle
affir-
meth,
CoI.2.4.-.
So
that now
the
Lord
cannot
in his
iuftice
put
vs
in
fuite,nor recouer
any
bebt ofvs,
feeing our Sauiour
Chrift,
our
good
and
all
fuffieient
furetie
hath
vndertaken
the
matter
in our
behalft
difcharged
our debt
to
the
vtmoft
farthing,
cancelled the
handwriting or bond,
in which we
were obliged',
and by the
law
acquitted
vs
of
all
paimentes,
which_Gods iuftice
byyertue
of
the
law
might
require ofvs:
and