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8.
The
immediat
effeEts
of
the oblation
of
Chun.
r
62
magnify
his
Grace, according
to
his
Eternall
Councell, and purpofe
in Jefus
Chriff,
innovates
the
Law,
as
to
the
Obligation
of
it unto
pnnifhment,
on
the
Epn.
t.e,t
1.
behalfe
of
fume,
by
an
interpofition
of
the
Sonne
of
his love
in fuch way,
as
to
2Tim.1.5.
ileb 7.22.
undergoe what
was
due
unto thole,
on whole behalfe the interpofition
was
10.9
made: and
by this
undertaking
of
Chrift,
in
the
very
fiat
notion
of
it,
as
it
2cor.5.21.
was
fatisfadory, thus
much
is
done and
accomplifhed.
ß
S.
Firft,
the
vindiefive
Nuffice
of
God
is
fatisfyed;
that
is,
whereas fuck
is
the
Geuas.ss.' tsaturall
Right
,
Soveraignty, and Dominion
of
God over
his
Creatures;
and
J
°rn'24''9'
fuch
his
Effentiall
Perfeáions
of
Holineffe,
Purity,
and
Righteoufnefe, that
if
Pfa1.5.4,5,6.
ttab.l.
t.3.
his
Creatures
calf
off
his
yoake, and their dependance on
him
(which
they do
R
.1.18
3 by every
finne,
what
in
them
lyeth)
it
is
then of
indifpenfable neceffity,that he
render unto
that
finne,or (inner, guilty
thereof,a
meet
Recompenceof Reward:
Yid.
Dint.
de
Jefus Chrift
hath
fo
anfweted
his
ftighteòufnefle,
that without'
the
impairing
Jeff.Div.
of
his
Right,
or
soveraignty,without
the
leaff
derogation
from
his
Perfeetions,
he
may receive
his
finning
Creatures againe
'
to
favour ;
It
beingthe
Yudg-
went
of
God,
that
they,
who
commitfnne,
are worthy
of
Death Rom. 1.32.
and
a
Righteous
thing with
him,ro
render Tribulation
to
inners:
r
Thef'
1.6,7:
(For
fhall
not the
judge
of
all
the world
do
right?
Gen.
18.) He
bath let
forth
his
Sonne
to
Declare
he'sRighteoufraefe
for the
forgiveneffe
of
finnesRom.3.24,25.
Now for
whom Chrifl dyed,he dyed for
all
their
fiinnes,
s
`John
1.7.
The
Blood
ofChrift
cleanfeth
to from all
fonae;
The
Application
of
it being cornmenfu-
rate to
his
intendment
in
his
Oblation, not extending it
felfe
to the
aetuall
effeáing
of
any
thing whatever,
which
was
not
meritorioufly procured there-
by.
He
loved his Church,
and gave himfelfe
for
it,
that
he
might
Sanctify, and
Gleanfe
it
with the
wafhing
of
water,that
he
might
prefentit
to
himfelfe
a Glorious
Church,
not havingfpotte
or
wrincle,
or any
fach thing,
bit
that
it
fbould
be Holy
and
without
blame
Ephef.5.25,26,27. He,makes
compleateAttonement to
the
Juffice
of
God on their
behalfe,fo
that
the
very
vindictive
fuftrce
of
God hath
nothing
to
lay
to
their
charge.
That
which in
God
maíntaines
the
Quarrel] againff
!inners Is
attoned,
and
is
no more
their
Enemy
than
Mercy it
felfe: And
this
not
upon condition
of
Believing
to
be antecedently
accomplilbed before
this
be done.
The
Satisfal ion
of
Juffice
vindiáive
de-
pends
not at
all
on
any
thing in
us;
it requires only
that
there be
vindrlla
time
a
vindication
ofthe
Soveraignty
of
God,over the
finning
Creature,
by
the
infliáioon
of
that
punifhmient, which
in his
Infininite
Wifdome
and
Righteoufnef(e,hebath
proportioned
unto(inne,
on
a ftippofition
of
Gone
in
fuch
Creatures,
as
being made meet and
fit
to
yeild
voluntary
Obedience
unto God,
and
fo
fianding
in a
morali
fubjeáion to
him, being
their
cutting
off,what
lyes in
them, their
dependance on
God,(which that it
fhould
be
continued,
is as
neceffary
as
that
God be God,
or the
Lord
of
all)
Thofe
Creatutes
are upon
the
account
of
the Soveraignty
&
Righteoufneffe
ofGod,
whereof
we
fpeake, indipenfably obnoxious
unto punifhment,
which
is
of
neceffity
required
unto
Gods
retaining
his
Dominion over
them.
By
the
Death
of
Chriff,rhis
Condition
is
fo
farre repaired,
that
the dependance
and
fubjeáion unto
God,
of
thofe,for whom he
Dyed,
is
madeup,
fo
farre
as
to
a
deliverance
of
them,
from
a
neceffity
of
being obnoxious
unto
punifhment,
.
and
that
compleately,without any
Abeyance upon conditions
in
themfelves,
which can
haveno
influence
thereunto.
So
that
though the preces
of
theLaw,
John 3.3e.
lent
for
2Cot.5.
ta.
th,be not inftantly recalled,but man
is
fuffered
to
lye
under
that
arreft
E
3.
for
a
yet God
lets
fall his
fuit on this account,and
will never
paffe
his
r
Fral
2t.3,í. ftrff
fentence, from which we are reprieved,
unto
full
and
final] execution:
Nlath.17.5.
pronouncing himfelfe,
well pleafed
with
his
Sonne,
refhng fatifyed
with his
mediatory performances, and
feeking no
farther.
2.