unto the Law, Declared and Vindicated. 3 8 3 whileft he is in this World, obliged to give Obedience un- to the Law of Godo according to the notices that he hath of it by the light of nature or otherwi+e. A wicked fervant that is puntlhed for his fault, if it be with fach a punithment as yet continues his Being, and his fiate of fèrvitude is not by his Punithment freed from an Obligation unto Duty, ac -fl cording unto the Rule of it. Yea, his Obligation unto Duty, with refpe& unto that crime for which he was punithed, is not diffolved, until his punifhment be capital, and fo put an end unto his Plate. Wherefore Peeing that by the - pardon of fin, we are freed only from the obligation unto Funifhnzent,° there is moreover required unto our Juftification, an Obedi- ence unto what the Law requireth. And this greatly flrengthneth the Argusnent,in whole Vin- dication we are ingaged ; for we being finners, we were ob -: noxious both unto the Command and Curie of the Law. Both mutt be anCwered, or we cannot be juítified. And as the Lord Chrift could not by his molt perfea Obedience,, fatisfie the Curie of the Law, dying thou (halt die ; fo by the utmoft of his fuffering, he could not fulfil the command of the Law, Do this and live. Pailion as Paillon is not Obedience, though there may be Obedience in fuf4ering, as there was in that of Chrift unto the height. Wherefore as we plead that the Death of Chrift is imputed unto us for our Jcftification Co we deny that it is imputed unto us for our Righteoufnlf. For by the Imputation of the Sul rings of Chrift, our fins are remitted or pardoned, and we are delivered from the Curie of the Law, which he underwent.- But we are not thence efteemed just or righteous, which we cannot be without re- fpe& unto the fulfilling of the Commands of the Law, or the Obedience by it required. The whole matter is excellently expreff d by Grotius in the words before ailedged. cum duo nobir peperiffe Chriftum dixerimus impunitatent preemisun, allud fatisfa&tioni hoc- raorito Cori, fl i difiin e tribuit vetur c- clefaa
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