2oo 1. he ~ial and SER. 18 fo, as he fuall never come to Condemnation for any .fins ~aft, or to come, but the Man now Jtand. eth :JuJlus in curia, juftified in the Court, ~hereas before his firil: believing, God looked at him as a Judge doth at a guilty Per.fon, whoie Perfori he abiolveth from all PuniJhment, becaufe his Surety hath given a Ranfom for him, & he hold- ~th fort~ thcit Rtniom ~o the Judge, but the Man • Jn all h1s after Faults ts fo, far forth a finner., as that which he bath done, though he be a juftified flJavid, , diJPMt~Jeth th~ Lord, ~. Sam. xi. 2 7 .And in fo far is he pardoned ; but God now looketh / ~ on him, as a Fatbe~ on an offending Son;· and · this Son doth not hold forth a new Ranfom to .God, but only renew the former : Nor cloth ~t infer a new Acceptance of his Perfon, that he ,had not before. 3· Nor place in God anY, new Love of free Complacency and good will. b~t only a further Manifeftation thereof, and a greater Meafure of the Love of Benevo1ence. 4· It iS' the fame AB: of free Grace that God putteth forth in pardoning his Son now fall~n in fin, ~ and in accepting of his Perfon at (idt. J., 'Tis the fa,ne Ranfom of Chrift's Atonement of his dear Blood, that his Faith laith hold on now, as before. 3. The Pardon of this fin committed by a juftified Son, is not the freeing ofliim frolll the etemal Punifhment of this Sin, as if he had been under eternal Wrath for it before ; for at his firft -believing, when his Perfon was accepted, he was fully and freely pardo'ned, and freed from an the Obligation to eternalvVrath, that all or any of his Sins paft, prefent, or to come, might fubjdr him unto, but it is the renewing of the Certai~ty of the Suffkiency of Chrift's Raoiom, as appl1ed to
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