The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…

¹Therefore in the third place, there is the proper effect, and consequent of sin, which is to make guilty, and oblige to eternal wrath. To omit the many things that are in sin, Divines do acknowledge two things in every sin, the Macula, or filth, and the Reatus, the guilt; which guilt some do again distinguish into the guilt of sin, which they call the inward dignity and desert of damnation, which they make inseparable from sin, even as heat is from the fire; and the guilt of punishment ⟨p. 133⟩which they make separable: For the present, let us examine, What is that effect of sin, whereby a man when a sin is committed is truly denominated a sinner, for seeing Remission is a taking away of sin in that respect, whereby we are adjudged and accounted of as sinners, it is necessary to know what that is, which doth so constitute a sinner: As for example, David after his adultery, Peter after his denial, have contracted such a guilt upon them, whereby they are accounted as sinners, though the acts of their sins be gone and passed; and in this condition they stand, till remission or forgiveness come, which takes away their sins. For the understanding of this, consider this foundation, That every sin committed by a man, though the sin be transient, and quickly passeth away, yet it doth still continue, and is as it were still in acting, till by remission it be removed. And this consideration is of great practical use. A man is apt to look upon his sins committed a long while ago, as those which are passed, and are no more to be thought upon; but you must know, that there is something which doth remain after a sin is committed, which is someways the same with the action of sin: so that not figuratively, but properly the sin it self is said to continue. Thus the Scripture calls something by the name of sin, that doth continue, when yet the commission of the sin is past. As David many months after he had sinned, prayeth God, To blot out his sin: why, where was his sin? It was committed long before, and it was a transient act, but yet David by this doth acknowledge that there is something which doth continue that act of sin, whereby David is as much bound up in his conscience, as if he had been in the very commission of it.

¹Therefore in the third place, there is the proper effect, and consequent of sin, which is to make guilty, and oblige to eternall wrath. To omit the many things that are in sinne, Divines doe acknowledge two things in every sinne, the Macula, or filth, and the Reatus, the guilt; which guilt some do again distinguish into the guilt of sin, which they call the inward dignity and desert of damnation, which they make inseparable from sinne, even as heat is from the fire; and the guilt of punishment