Rutherford - HP BS2575 .4 R975 1743

- '. s 3' 1he Trial anti Su.. tg this muft be the gr.:ateft lnJufbce in the World to p.mi fh a Man for Sin, altogether free ot the Guilt of Sin ; except ' Antinomians diftinguifh with us, between finful Guilt, and penal Guilt, called Reatus cuJpte, and Reatm pa:nte,or Reatus perfon.£,feu potentia/is and Reatus j01·malis,je~ a flualis, they fhall neverexpecle themfelves. Now though ir be true, that in J--aw the Debtor and the Surety ,be both one legal Perfon, yet intrinficall y they are not one, the brokc-n Debtor as fuch may be an unjult Man, and the Surety a faithful and juft Man; fo that the Surety as a fatisf)-ing Surety removeth only the Punifhmentduf" to the Debtor for his Injufiice; but he remo~eth not formally Jnjuftice, except he . be !uch a Surety as Chr1ft, who can both pay the Debt, and fo remove the Ill of Punifhrnent, and aH() infufe Holmets, and fantl:ite and remove the E vil of Sin; hence in Jufti6carion formally, Chrift only taketh away the Punifhment of everlafting ,f'ire, and eternal Condemnation due to fin ; but h~ removerh nor fin itfelf; fin itfdt is removed j :1 San<'liftcation, and by D~grees ; J uftification taketh the fting out of the Serpent, but doth not ' formally kill the Ser~nt; the Sepent is killed by ;tnother A.Cl ofGrace, by infufed & ·perfetled Sane. tifi(;~tion ; J uftification is a ff)rin1ecal and legal Aft, and removeth the Power of the Law, which involveth the Sinner in a Curfe: Now the firength or the legal Sting of Sin is the Law, .r Cor, xv. 56. So we may judge how falfe this Di- :yinity is, which Dr. Orijp afferteth, Tau will never ((aith he) have fi2!tietnefs of Spirit in rejpeB offin, till you have reuived this Principle, thflt ;e is not the Guilt of IniquitJJ only, bu_t , Im·

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