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

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.

Qu. 45. Is this the reason of our deliverance from the Law, and being dead t• it, because we suffered everlasting Hell fire equivalently in Christs sufferings.

Qu. 45. Is this the reason of our deliverance from the Law, and being dead t• it, because we suffered everlasting Hell fire equival•ntly in Christs sufferings.

Ans. When men once depart from the Scripture, t•ei• corrupt additions hardly keep bounds.