Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…

Treat. p. 129, 130. It sounds as intolerable Doctrine in my ears, that Christ our Mediator did only expiate by his death sins against the Law and Covenant of works, but that those that are against the Covenant of Grace, &c.

Answ. A sin is against the Law of Grace or Gospel, first, because it is against some object revealed in the Gospel, which the sin is against, (as Christ) Thus sin was expiated by Christ: 2ly. As it is against a Precept of the Gospel and thus it is expiated by Christ: 3ly. As it is a breach of a mans own Promise or Covenant made to Christ upon the Gospel invitation. And thus it is expiated by Christ. 4ly. Or as it hath respect to the Gospel commination, so as to make a man the object of the actual curse of this New Covenant, or the person to whom its proper penalty is become actually due; as every sin made the penalty of the first Law actually due to us. This is it that I have said, that Christ doth not expiate, and none but this. Some Divines say, the Gospel hath no proper curse or commination & penalty. I am past doubt that it hath, even non-liberation, a privation of all the salvation offered them, and the Remedilessness of their state, &c. and I have oft opened this, and proved that only final Impenitency and Infidelity, or the finall non-performance of the conditions of life, are thus peremptorily threatened, and make a man the Subject of the proper actual curse of this Law of Grace. And if after all explications, you will still carry it in confusion, or intimate that men hold intolerable Doctrine, omitting their explications, and by generals making that theirs which they disclaim: our next reply shall be patience; or if you think indeed, either that the Law of Grace doth oblige any under the penalty of remediless non-liberation, besides the finally Impenitent and Unbelievers, or that Christ dyed to expiate any mans predominant final Impenitency or Unbelief, I will not trouble you with any other confutation then a denial of it.

Answ. A sin is against the Law of Grace or Gospel, first, because it is against some object revealed in the Gospel, which the sin is against, (as Christ) Thus sin was expiated by Christ: 2ly. As it is against a Precept of the Gospel and thus it is expiated by Christ: 3ly. As it is a breach of a mans own Promise or Covenant made to Christ upon the Gospel invitation. And thus it is expiated by Christ. 4ly. Or as it hath respect to the Gospel commination, so as to make a man the object of the actuall curse of this New Covenant, or the person to whom its proper penalty is become actually due; as every sin made the penalty of the first Law actually due to us. This is it that I have said, that Christ doth not expiate, and none but this. Some Divines say, the Gospel hath no proper curse or commination & penalty. I am past doubt that it hath, even non-liberation, a privation of all the salvation offered them, and the Remedilesness of their state, &c. and I have oft opened this, and proved that only final Impenitency and Infidelity, or the finall non-performance of the conditions of life, are thus peremptorily threatned, and make a man the Subject of the proper actual curse of this Law of Grace. And if after all explications, you will still carry it in confusion, or intimate that men hold intolerable Doctrine, omitting their explications, and by generals making that theirs which they disclaim: our next reply shall be patience; or if you think indeed, either that the Law of Grace doth oblige any under the penalty of remediless non-liberation, besides the finally Impenitent and Unbelievers, or that Christ dyed to expiate any mans predominant final Impenitency or Unbelief, I will not trouble you with any other consutation then a denyal of it.