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Hence you may see how to judge of the Controversy so much agitated between us and the Papists, Utrum Remissd Culpa remaneat poena temporalis? Whether Temporal Punishment remain when the Sin is forgiven: (And how indistinctly that question is commonly handled; etiam per magni nominis Theologos (Detur Venia censurae necessariae.)

Hence you may see how to judge of the Controversie so much agitated between us and the Papists, Utrum Remissd Culpa remaneat poena temporalis? Whether Temporal Punishment remain when the Sin is forgiven: (And how indistinctly that question is commonly handled; etiam per magni nominis Theologos (Detur Venia censurae necessariae.)

As merciful corrective Punishment is not all remitted in this Life, to any of the Elect, so Sin it self is to them so far unremitted, as the punishment is unremitted. I weigh not the Clamours that some will make against this Assertion, who use more zealously to assert the Dictates of their Leaders, than the words of God; and to search and learn what the Orthodox say, than what God saith, or the Nature of the thing containeth. Hear the Scripture, Lam. 3. 42. [We have▪ transgressed, we have Rebelled, thou hast not pardoned.] This was spoken by the Prophet in his own name, and the name of all God's People, the Jews, because of their Temporal Sufferings.

Abundance of the like importance might be cited from Scripture, but this is not the place. Methinks those Antinomians should not be against this Doctrine, who (falsely) teach, that that it is only Temporal Punishment or Chastisement that Believers Pray against, when they daily Pray, forgive us our Trespasses (as the most moderate of their Books do affirm.