Rutherford - HP BS2575 .4 R975 1743

I . 2. T'O ne Trial and SEll . -J 9 p~i:atively _contrfiry to J.. ftice. 2. A jc.it 'I hmg, a G~ Hlr, a Jnfr Deht, a,ccordin~ to . wt.i ... h it is moft 1ufi:, that the br, ken Man either pay or fuffer: Now tbe-ie two, .as a 11. Contraries do · Fatiun_t Numerum, they m~ ke a Number; as j t... tl: and unJ Ll fr m '1ft be two .Thmgs, and two coNrary Things: I know there be Cavils, and Subt lities of Scfiool men, touching the Blot, or Mffcula r ercati, and RPatus, trt:' Guilt of Sin; but thi~ is the naked Truth which I h e~ v(' declared So1"1e fay' The Blot ofSin is that Uncle,.mnefs ofS1 r , ' which is wafhed away by the B1o1'11 of t ~ e 11 I ord Jefus, and this is nr.thinf! but the very ' Guilt of Sin, which is whoHyre~1oved in J d!iJ.. ncation. , / But I eafily an1Wt'f, The BIN of ' Sin hath divers Relation~, and thrfe contrary . one to another: As, r. There i . the B1nt of Sin in ]{elation to the holy-Law, as it is a Privation (,£ the ReCtitude and Holinets that the fpiritual Law ·. requireth; and it is fimnally Sin, and not .the Guilt of Sin ; in which Contideration, as nothjng rempve th Blin_dneis, but feeinP. Fyes; or DeafnefS, but bearing E~r-~ ; ,io nothing formally f"emCYveth Sin, but only the perfeA: Habit of ac.:omplifhed Sanctification~ and io the Blot of Sin, Macula . is not that which is formJ llv rrmoved in J uftification, but only in perfected Sanctification. · z. The Bbt of :fin in Relation to God, ac; c,ffenced and injured, putteth on the Habit of Guilt, and fo it is wa01ed away in tl:e Fovntain open~d to the Houfe of: David, and formally r~movfd m J•1fti fi cation, .but now it is not formally ccmficler' ed ::~•; f. n, b~naccording to that which is accidlnt1l in fip; to wit, Oblig~tion to punifhment, wbi .h · may •

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