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4 The fourth Pardon and most full, is that by the absolving Sentence at Judgment, by Christ as Judge when our sins shall be blotted out, when that time of refreshing comes, as the Apostle speaks Act. 3. These four are several acts tending to the full perfecting of our Pardon and Justification, and are all called Pardon, and must all proceed in this order one after another.

Moreover the third of these, or the properest remission in this life, is of divers sorts or degrees, according to the Termini à quibus. the divers sins or penalties Remitted: As is the second also. From thence therefore we must next distinguish of Remission, as we did before from the nature of the remitting act: For the word [Remission] of sin, signifieth the Dissolution of the Obligation to Punishment; and so doth constitutive Justification too: But the term Justification respecteth more strongly [the obligation] dissolved; and the word [Remission] more strongly respecteth [the Punishment] to which we were obliged; not that Remission doth only respect the Punishment (as some mistake) and not the obligation at all; but it chiefly respecteth the Punishment. And therefore ⟨p. 354⟩it is both Obligationis Relaxatio vel Remissio, & Poenae Remissio, but most properly and principally the last. And therefore it is a right distribution of Remission, which is taken from the diversity of the Penalties remitted.

Let us therefore First distinguish of Punishment that we may the better distinguish of Remission. And before that let us define Punishment.