The Scripture Gospel defended, and Christ, grace, and free justification vindicated against the libertines…

3. Executive, which actually freeth us from the poena d•mm & sensus. And so Sanctification is a part of Executive Pardon, so far as it giveth what so: sin we were penally deprived of. This is all plain and sure.

Qu. 44. Seeing we our selves bear that p•rt of the Curse which lieth in Death spiritual, doth it follow that Christs Sufferings were not to free us from it, when we b•re it, and not he?

Qu. 44. Seein• we our selves bear that p•rt of the Curse which lieth in Death spiritual, doth it follow that Christs Suf•erings were not to free us from it, when we b•re it, and not he?

Ans. It is not denied that part of the punishment of sin is born by the Elect themselves, which the former Objecters deny:) And therefore that Pardon is not absolutely perfect at first: Death and Divine denials of the Spirit and Grace, are such penalties▪ And Christ died not (nor obeyed) to save us from that which we are not to be saved from, but was excepted from Pardon. But the Ob•ecter can never prove that the Merit of Christs Sufferings (though he •uffered not spiritual death, or privation of Gods Image) doth not free us, 1. From so much of spiritual death or pravity as we are freed from: 2. And from the duration of it for ever: Or else it merited not one half our pardon. To be washed from our sins in his blood, can be no less than to be freed from the guilt which is the obligation to punishment first, and consequently from the punishment it self.