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,…

3. We may not conceive it said to be covered in this sense, As if God when he had pardoned, did not yet still retain anger against the persons sinning, and so chastise them. Though this doctrine be much pleaded for, yet Scripture is evident against it. David had sin covered, yet God would not let the sword depart from his house. Thus Job aweth himself against sin with this consideration, That God would see it in him, and take notice of it, Job 10.14. If I sin, thou markest me (God seeth sin in Job) and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity; and Cha. 14.16, 17. he saith, God doth watch over his sin, and seal it up in a bag. Let not then the people of God delude themselves into security, by any false doctrine; and what woeful conclusions there are of a godly mans peace, when he falls into a gross sin, I shall handle in another Question.

3. We may not conceive it said to be covered in this sense, As if God when he had pardoned, did not yet still retain anger against the persons sinning, and so chastise them. Though this doctrine be much pleaded for, yet Scripture is evident against it. David had sin covered, yet God would not let the sword depart from his house. Thus Job aweth himself against sinne with this consideration, That God would see it in him, and take notice of it, Job 10.14. If I sinne, thou markest me (God seeth sin in Job) and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity; and Cha. 14.16, 17. he saith, God doth watch over his sin, and seal it up in a bag. Let not then the people of God delude themselves into security, by any false doctrine; and what woful conclusions there are of a godly mans peace, when he fals into a grosse sin, I shall handle in another Question.

Neither fourthly, may we conceive of sin covered, in a carnal gross manner, As if there were something interposed between Gods eyes and sin; as if a mans face were covered with an hat, or a candle put under a bushel. The Antinomians similitude is gross and carnal, Honey-comb, pag. 275. as a man looking through a red glass, seeth the water all red within it, so God looking upon us in Christ, seeth nothing but the righteousness of Christ, and no sin at all; for the reason why our senses judge water red through a red glass, is, because it depends upon the fitness of a medium, and that being indisposed, the eye is deceived; but God in looking upon us, doth not depend upon any intervening thing; and indeed Gods seeing of sin in this point, is not so much an act of his understanding, as of his will, decreeing to punish sin, or not to punish it So that this similitude doth no ways hold, for God in this matter of forgiving or punishing sin, is not to be looked upon as a natural agent, but voluntary. So that all these things rightly understood, we may take that