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31. Pardon of sin doth not make the fact done to be undone, or not done, nor the sin to be no sin, nor not to have deserved punishment: But it remitteth the punishment and the fault, so far as it inferreth punishment, because of the merit and satisfaction of the Mediator; and delivereth the sinner from that which he was bound to suffer by the violated Law.

32. To make a man righteous before God that hath sinned, all these things must concur: 1. He must have a Mediator that must answer the Ends of the Law that condemneth him, and so meriteth his Justification. 2. This Saviour must make him a Pardoning and Justifying Covenant, to convey the right of the purchased benefits to him. 3. He himself (by grace) must perform the Conditions of that Covenant; accepting the free gift believingly according to its nature and use. 4. Upon this the Covenant (by virtue of the foresaid Merit of the Mediator) must effectually justify him.

32. To make a man righteous before God that hath sinned, all these things must concur: 1. He must have a Mediator that must answer the Ends of the Law that condemneth him, and so meriteth his Justification. 2. This Saviour must make him a Pardoning and Justifying Covenant, to convey the right of the purchased benefits to him. 3. He himself (by grace) must per•orm the Conditions of that Covenant; accepting the free gift believingly according to its nature and use. 4. Upon this the Covenant (by virtue of the foresaid Merit of the Mediator) must effectually justifie him.

33. Though we have no Righteousness of our own, that is so denominated by the Law of Innocency, yet have we a Righteousness to plead for our Justification from its Sentence, which by our Mediator was performed to it, by which the Lawgiver hath received satisfaction; and we must have the personal subordinate righteousness required by the Covenant of Grace.