that God requireth of us. 3 47 unto his concernment therein. It will accufe and exca f , con- demn and free him, according to the fentence of this Law, let him do what he can'tothe contrary. In brief it is acknowledged, that God by virtue of his fupream Dominion over all, may in fume Inflances change the nature and order of things, fo as the Precepts of the Di- vine Law {hall not in them operate in their ordinary efficacy. So was it in the cafe of his command unto Abraham to flay his Son, and unto the Ifraelites to rob the .Egyptians. But on a fuppofition of the continuance of that order of things which this Law is the prefervative of, fuch is the intrinfick nature of the Good and Evil commanded and forbidden therein, that it is not the fubje& of divine Difpenfation, as even the School -men generally grant. r o. From what we have difeourfed two things do una- voidably enfue. i. That whereas all mankind have by fin fallen under the Penalty threatned unto the Tranfgreffion of this Law ; and fuffering of this Penalty which is Eternal Death, being in- confiftent with Acceptance before God, or the enjoyment of Bleífednefs, it is utterly impoffible that any one individual perfon of the pofterity of Adam fhould be ju{tified in the fight of God, accepted with him or blefied by him, unlefs this Penalty be anfwered, undergone, and fuffered by them or for them ; the d` u,10,1.4a s ea herein is not to be aboliflied but eflablithed. 2. That unto the fame End of Acceptation with God, Ju- flification before him, and Blef ednefs from him, the Righte- oufnefs of this Eternal Law muff be fulfilled in us, in filch a way, as that in the Judgment of God which is according unto Truth, we may be efteemed to have fulfilled it, and be dealt with accordingly. For upon a fuppofition of.a failure herein, the fandtion of the Law is not Arbitrary, fo as that the Penalty may may not be inflicted, but necefjary from Yy2 the
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