SEE\. 26 ~riumph of FaitlJ~ 24 )>" a mighty Prince, by an AB: of fre~ Grace, could and would deliver this Man from all this Pain and Torture, and give him a Life in perfeB: Health, in ten hundred Paradiies of Joy, Pleafure, worldly Happiw:fs, and a Day all the thoufand Years witi.1out a Night, a Summer,all ~his "I'ime without Cloud, Storm, Winter; all the Honour, Acclamations, Love and fervice of a World of Men and Angels clothe this Man with all the moft cornpleat Delights, /Perfeft:ions and Virtues ot Mind and Body ; fet him ten thfmfand Degrees of Elivation, to the Top Gf all imagina- ,ble Happinefs, above Solomon in his high<;ft Roy~ , alty, or 'Adam in his firft ·jnnocrncy, or A ngels in their mo.ft tranfcendent Glory and Happinefs. Yea, 4· In our eqnception, we may ,extend the former Mifery and · Pain, and ·all this ·Happind$, to the Length of ten thoufimd Y;.ears; this lhould be thought in comparably the higheft Afl: of Grace and Love that any Creature could extend to his Fellow Creature: And yet all this were but' a Shadow of Grace, in yomparifon of the Love and rich Grace of God in Chrift, in the Juftifi- (:ation of a finner. 2.. Confider, we are freed frorn · the Guilt of Sin in Jufiification. Ndw, this i& the eternal Debt of Sin that remaineth after fin, that none can wafh away but Cbrift,. and. that this remaineth ~fter fin ·is atied. ~ . That it re- ~aineth for Eternity. ;. That: it is a Mifery we are only in Juftifi,ation delivered from, is ~lear.in Scripture. 1. Becaufe fin / is a :Qeht : After the borrowecl Money is fpent and gone-. fomewhat in Law and. J uftice t-emaineth, and~ this js Debt or Obligation to make Payment to the Creditor, z, So the Scripture fpeaketh, J~t:f Q3, ' u.
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