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And therefore it was only the Law of perfect Innocency anew imposed on himself, by the Mediatorial Covenant that bound him. And if the Penal Sentence and Curse, be Executed on all the Reprobate, then it is not ceased: And then it must be a Penalty, and that Curse, even on the Elect before they believe, because till then, they have no part in Christ. And after they believe, they must bear part of that Penalty, called a Curse, which was fixed, and not reversed and pardoned; that is, The privation of those degrees of Grace, Peace, and Joy, which they should have had if there had been no sin: The Curse on the Earth, Sorrow in Child-bearing, and Death: These cease not now to be Penals, but are Sanctified Penalties. A Curse turned to a Blessing; an Evil made a ⟨p. 10⟩Medicine to our good; Correction is truly Penal, tho' profitable; Christ suffered to attain his own Ends, and not to cross them, His Ends was not to free the Elect from his own Government, or Correcting Justice. XVI. They affirm, that the Covenant is made only with Christ, for us, but not with us: As it God made none with man, and Baptizing and Christianity were not Covenanting. XVII. They feign God to have made an eternal Covenant with his Son; that is, God imposing on God, the Law of Mediation. XVIII. They most dangerously affirm, that Christ took not only the punishment of our sin, and that guilt, or Reatum poenae, which is an assumed obligation to suffer the punishment deserved by us, (to be Vicarius poenae) but all our very Sins themselves: the very Essence of the Sin of all the Elect; the Reatum Culpae: So that, tho' he never did sin himself, yet all our sins, habitual and actual, positive and privative, of commission and omission, became truly and properly Christs own sins: And so, that he was truly judged a hater and blasphemer of God and Holiness, and the greatest murderer, adulterer, thief, liar, perjured Traitor in all the World, the sins of all the Elect being truly His sins. Of which Dr. Crisp is positive and large. XVIIII. They say, that God laid these sins of ours on him, and made him properly sin for us, and not only a Sacrifice for sin: And so, that God is the Maker of the greatest Sin. XIX. They say, that Gods Imputation being truly but the accounting one to be what he is; had not God made him a Sinner, his imputing or reckoning him such, had been a Lye;

And therefore it was only the Law of perfect Innocency anew imposed on himself, by the Mediatorial Covenant that bound him. And if the Penal Sentence and Curse, be Executed on all the Reprobate, then it is not ceased: And then it must be a Penalty, and that Curse, even on the Elect before they believe, because till then, they have no part in Christ. And after they believe, they must bear part of that Penalty, called a Curse, which was fixed, and not reversed and pardoned; that is, The privation of those degrees of Grace, Peace, and Joy, which they should have had if there had been no sin: The Curse on the Earth, Sorrow in Child-bearing, and Death: These cease not now to be Penals, but are Sanctified Penalties. A Curse turned to a Blessing; an Evil made a