unto the Lan', Declared and Vindicate L . 3 79 contained in them, is made ufe of by fundry learned Per - fons who yet agree with us in the fubffance of the Dodtrine ofJuffification, namely, that it is by Faith alone, without Works, through the Imputation of the Merit and satisfadion of Chrift. I (hall as briefly as I can difcover the miftakes that it proceeds upon. z. It includes a fuppofition , That he who is pardoned his fins of omion and commiffion, is efteemed to have done all that is required of hint, and to have committed nothing that is forbidden. For without this fuppofition, the bare pardon of fin, will neither make, conffi.tute, nor denominate any Màn righteous. But this is far otherwife, nor is any fuch thing in- cluded in the nature of Pardon. For in the Pardon of fin, neither God nor Man do judge, That he who bath finned, bath notlinned ; which mutt be done, if he who is pardoned be of eemed to have dòne all that he ought, and to have done no- thing that he ought not to do. If a Man be brought on his try - al for any evil fa &, and being legally convííted thereof, is difcharged by soveraign Pardons it is true, that in the eye of the Law, he is looked upon as an innocent man, as unto the punifhment that was due unto him ; but no Man thinks that he is-made righteous thereby, or is efteemed not to have done that which really he hath done, and whereof he was convicted. oab and Abiathar the Prieft were at the fame time guilty of the fame crime. Solomon gives order that `foab be put to death for his crime; but unto Abiathar he gives a Pardon. Did he thereby make, declare or conftitute him righteous ? Himfelf expreffeth the contrary, affirming him to be unrighteous and guilty, only he remitted the punifhment of his fault. z King. 2. 26. Wherefore the Par- don of fin difchargeth the guilty perfon from being liable or obnoxious unto Anger, Wrath, or Punifhment, due unto his fin ; but it loth not fuppofe, nor infer in the leaff, that he is thereby or ought thereon to be e.fteerned or adjudged to have C c c 2 done
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