The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

2. The guilt of fault, reatus culpae, is the reality of this charge (or the foundation of it in us) that we are the committers ⟨p. 312⟩or omitters of such an action contrary to the Law: or that our act or omission was really a crime or fault.

3. The guilt of punishment, reatus poenae, vel ad poenam, is the foundation of this charge, that we are by that Law which must judge us, condemnable, or obliged to punishment (or it is our right) for the sins so committed.

Now Christ doth not by justifying us, or pardoning us, make us either to be such as really did not do the fact; or such as did not a culpable fact, no nor such as did not deserve damnation, or to whom it was not due by the first Law alone; but to be such who are not now at all condemnable for it, because the new Law which we must be judged by, doth absolve us, by forgiving us; not making the fault no fault, nor causing God to think that Christ committed it, and not we; or to esteem us to be such as never did commit it; but remitting the punishment, and that dueness of punishment and obligation to it, which did before result from the fault and Law together; and so the fault it self is remitted as it is the foundation from whence that obligation to punishment resulteth, respectively, but not simply, nor as a fault in it self at all.