214 :I he Trial and SEll. I 9 al Obligation to PuniJhment, becaufe he hath finned, and is under the Guilt of Tranfgreffion; as he is therefore in Law and Jufl:ice a guilty ;Debtor to fuffer Evil of Punifhment, becauie againft Law and Juftice, 'he is a bad deferving finner, in doing againft, and fo by a (reatus culpte) a finguilt, bath tranfgrefled a Law; for all Evil of Punifhme-nt, is a Daughter which lay in_ the Womb of the evil of fin ; and the guilt of the latter ill of Punilhment muft flow from the former ; to wit, from the ill of Sin ; fo, to be guilty, or obliged to eternal Punifl1ment, is a Fruit, and rdult or confequent of the fundamental and intrinfisal guilt efSin. 3· An unjuft and finful Deviation from the holy Will ofGod revealed in l1is Law, and hateful to, and puniffiable by God, cannot. be one and the fame Thing .with that which is jufr, and agreabJe to the juft and holy Will ofGod; but fin itfelf, in its formal Being, i s a Deviation from the holy Will of God revealed in his Law, Sin being defined by John, A ~1-ranfi';r~flion of the Laru.', and is hateful to,_,a·nd puniihable by the-_Lord : But the guilt ofSm, ?f which we now fpeak, is nothing but the demerJt, and actual Obligation to et~rnal Punifhrnent, an~ is no unju~ T~ing, no Tranigreffion ~f Go~'s W1Il revealed m h1s La~ ; yea, the clement ofSm is a moft juft Thing, and the atl:ual Obligation to punifhment is moft juft, and holy, and agr~eable to Go{t'S }uJl Will, and Ohligati'On to Pumfhment can neither be puniJhaLle", nor hateful to God ;, yea , 'tis juft with God that the finner be under Law-obligation, to eat the Fruits of the Tree ofhis own'planting to have his Teeth feton edge with the fowre G~r~pe5 that he eat himfel£ ' 4.He
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