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and to bring man back to the love and obedience of his Maker, and to cure him of his worldly love. And so that Holiness or the love of God, is the end of our Redemption, and our Faith. 51. It is most certainly that he is the best man that hath the least need of pardon of sin, that is, that is most Holy and least sinful; And that all men must rather desire to be kept from sin, (and pardoned when they do sin) then to sin and then be pardoned: nor may we desire Pardon alone, if we could have it. So that we are pardoned what is past, that Love may make us sin so no more; and Justification is an antecedent means to our fuller Holiness and obedience to God (which I have largely opened in my Confession of faith.) 52. It is certain that Justification and Sanctification go on hand in hand together (of which see Mr. George Hopkins, Salvation from sin;) And that it is a notorious error of such as say that Justification is perfect as soon as it begins (though it be true that all sin is then forgiven.) 53. And it is certain that Sanctification as it is the work of God, is an executive part, or one part of the executive pardon of our sins; Because it is the taking off of a very great penalty, which is the privation of the spirit of grace. 54. Nothing is more injurious to Christ than to feign that he is a patron of sin, or came to excuse men by free justification from obedience to their Creators law of nature, or to make sin less odious to mankind: seeing he dyed to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purify to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. 55. And it is an intolerable blasphemy against God, to imagine that Christ came to make the Divine nature more ⟨p. 16⟩friendly or reconcilable to sin, or to love complacencially an ungodly person as if he were godly, as being such by the imputation of Christs righteousness to him, and to repute any man to be what he is not; to take a wicked man for a Saint, because that Christ was holy for him: what ever malicious Papists say, the Protestants abhor such doctrine. 56. And as far are we from believing that Christ was a sinner, or that God ever supposed him to be a sinner, or hated or punished him as a sinner: or that ever our sin did really become his sin, or that God reputed it so to have been. For no false judgment can belong to God. 57.

and to bring man back to the love and obedience of his Maker, and to cure him of his worldly love. And so that Holiness or the love of God, is the end of our Redemption, and our Faith. 51. It is most certainly that he is the best man that hath the least need of pardon of sin, that is, that is most Holy and least sinful; And that all men must rather desire to be kept from sin, (and pardoned when they do sin) then to sin and then be pardoned: nor may we desire Pardon alone, if we could have it. So that we are pardoned what is past, that Love may make us sin so no more; and Justification is an antecedent means to our fuller Holiness and obedience to God (which I have largely opened in my Confession of faith.) 52. It is certain that Justification and Sanctification go on hand in hand together (of which see Mr. George Hopkins, Salvation from sin;) And that it is a notorious errour of such as say that Justification is perfect as soon as it begins (though it be true that all sin is then forgiven.) 53. And it is certain that Sanctification as it is the work of God, is an executive part, or one part of the executive pardon of our sins; Because it is the taking off of a very great penalty, which is the privation of the spirit of grace. 54. Nothing is more injurious to Christ than to feign that he is a patron of sin, or came to excuse men by free justification from obedience to their Creators law of nature, or to make sin less odious to mankind: seeing he dyed to redeem us from all iniquity, and to purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. 55. And it is an intollerable blasphemy against God, to imagine that Christ came to make the Divine nature more