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The
efficacy
of
the
Ob1,ofCh
in
its
influence
into
the
Sts
Perf.
C.V1.4:6.
courfe
in
that
Chapter, as it lookes upon the
matter under
prefent confìdera-
r
61
don.
That
Sacrifice,which
fo
taketh
away
the
Sinnes
of
them,for
whom'tis
offered,
as
that thereupon
they
(hould be perfe&,
or
perfe&1y
accquítted
of
them,
and have no more confcience
(which
is
a
judgement
of
a
mans felfe,
anfwering to
the
judgment
of
God concerning
him)
offinne,
fo
to judge
him
and condemne him for
it,
as
not
to
have remedy
of
that Judgement or con-
demnation provided
in
that
Sacrifice,that
(I
fay)
doth
fo
take
away
the
Guilt
of
finne,as
that
it
{.hall
never feparate between God
and
then,
for whom and
whofe
finne
it
was
offered;
but
fuch was
the
Sacrifice
of
Chrift:
Ergo;
The
Keafon
of
the
Confegxence
is
cleare from
the very
forme
of
the
propofition;
and
nothing
is
affumed,
but
what
is
the
expreffe
Teftimony
of
the
Apoftle,in
that
and
other
places?
So
Daniel
9.24.
The
defigne in
the Death
of
-
Chrift,
is
to fanifh
the
Trani.-
4,
6.
greffîon, to matte
an
end
of
Sinne,
and
to make
reconciliation
for
iniquities, and
to
bring
in
everlafling Righteoufnefe;
Chrift makes an end offinne:
not that there
(hould
be
no more
finne in
the world;
for
there
is
yet
finning
to
the purpofe,
in fome
refpe&,
much
more then before
his
death;
and
there
will
be
,fo
to
e.
Heb.6.4,5.
ternity, ifthofe
under
the ultimate
fentence may be
thought to
finne;
but
he
1O'
25.
makes
an
end
of
it
,
as
to theControverfy
and
difference
about it, between
God,
and them
for whom he
died; and
that
by
making Reconciliation; On
Rom.5.
io,
the part
ofGod,
attoning
him
toward
us, which
Attonement
we
are perfwa-
ded to
accept:
and
by
bringing
in
for
us,
a
Righteoufneffe
which
is
everla-
Ira.
27.3,4
fting, and willabide
the triall,
which
God
will
certainly accept: Now
when
45.24,25
God
is
fatisfied
for
finne,
and
we
are furnifhed with
a
R.ighteoufneffe exactly
compleat, and anfwering to the utmoft
of
his
demand, whence
can any
more
conteft
arife
about the guilt
of
finne,
or the
obligation
of
the
firmer
unto pu-
nithment,
that from
the
Juftice
and
Law
of
Goddoth attend
it?
This
alto
the
Apoflle
urgeth
Rom.
8.34.
Who
k
he
that
condemneth?
It
is Chri11
that
died:
He
argueth
from
the death
of
Chrift
to
the
ablation, or
removall
of
Condem-
Heb.
10.54,
nation for
finne; becaufe
by
his
death he hatb made
an
end
of
finne,
as
was
15,16,17,18
(hewed, and
brought
in
everlafting Righteoufneffe.
To
fufpend
the
iffüe
of
all
thefe tranfa
&ions
between God, and the
Mediator,
upon conditions by
us
to
be accompli(hed,
not
beftowed
onus,
purchafed for
us,
and
as
to
theirevent uncertaine,
is
difadvantagioufly
to
begge
the thing
in
que-
(tion.
Now becaufe
it
appears,
that,
notwithftanding the death
of
thrift,
many
Cor.6.1
r.
for
whom he
died,
are kept
a
long
feafon
under
the
guilt offinne,. and are all
Ep ,,
2.11,1a
,of
then
borne
in
a
condition
of
wrath,
(Ephef.
2.3.)
I fhall
crave leave
a
little
to
infift
on
this
inftance, and
to
thew,
that
notwithftanding the
Truth
there-
of,
yet
the guilt offinne
is
fo
taken
away, from all
thofe for
whom Chrift
di-
ed,
by
his
death,
that it
fhall
never
be
a caufe
of
everlafting feparation
be-
tween God and them. In
the
Obedience and
Death
of
Chrift, whereby
as
a
2
cor
5
1a,
compleatly
fufficient
and
efficacious
meanes
,
he made
way,
for the Accom-
pli(hment
of
his
eternal! purpofes,
in fuck
paths
of
infinite
wifdome,
as
brought
in
all
the
good he aymed by it,
in
that
order,
which
the very
frame
and nature
of
things by him appointed,
required the exaltation
of
his
Glory,
God
is
fatisfied,
well
pleated, and refolved
that
he
will
not take
his
courfe
at
'Law
againft
thofe, in
the
behalfe
of
whom
he
died.
Though
an Arrefl was
gone forth
againft all
mankind
,
yet
the
Lord
fufpended by
his
Soveraignty
the utmoft
Execution
of
it, that
tome
and
(pace
might be
given,
according
to
the
Eternal!
thoughts
of
his
heart, for the
deliverance
of
force.
A
reprieve
is
granted
mankinde
out
of
Reafons, and for Purpofes
of
his owne:
After
the
fenteuce
ofDeath
was
denounced againft them, God being
pleafed
to
magnify