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

And it is certain, that Gods actual taking off punishment, and giving the blessing which sin had deprived us of, is a declaration of his mind, which may be called, an executive sentence, and might serve the turn if there were no more: And that in Scripture, the terms of [Gods judging the world] doth usually signify Gods executive Government, rewarding and punishing: And that God doth begin such execution in this life: and that his giving the Spirit is thus his principal pardoning and justifying act; and yet that this is but part, and not the whole of our present executive pardon: and that glorification in this sense is the highest and noblest Justification or Pardon; when God giveth us all that sin had forfeited (But yet we deny not that Glorification is somewhat more than an executive pardon, so far as any more is then given us, than we did forfeit by our sins.)

And it is certain, that Gods actual taking off punishment, and giving the blessing which sin had deprived us of, is a declaration of his mind, which may be called, an executive sentence, and might serve the turn if there were no more: And that in Scripture, the terms of [Gods judging the world] doth usually signifie Gods executive Government, rewarding and punishing: And that God doth begin such execution in this life: and that his giving the Spirit is thus his principal pardoning and justifying act; and yet that this is but part, and not the whole of our present executive pardon: and that glorification in this sense is the highest and noblest Justification or Pardon; when God giveth us all that sin had forfeited (But yet we deny not that Glorification is somewhat more than an executive pardon, so far as any more is then given us, than we did forfeit by our sins.)

I must desire the Reader not to forget all this explication of the nature of Justification, because it will be supposed to the understanding of all before and after.