1. God intended not in the acceptance of Christs mediation to remove in this life all the punishments denounced after the fall. God takes away the eternal, but not the temporal. For this very punishment was threatened after his acceptance of Christs mediation, and after the compact and covenant between the Father and the Son, about their redemption of mankind, because the promise preceded the threatening, and the mediatory covenant preceded the promise. Some parts of Christs purchase are only payable in another life, and some fruits of Redemption God intends for growth only in another soil; such are Freedom from pain, diseases, death & sin. And therefore the last day, when believers shall be gathered together, is called by way of excellency, the day of Redemption, Eph. 4.30. as if we had nothing of Redemption properly in this life, because we have it not complete. And it is called upon this account the time of refreshing and the time of the restitution of all things, Act. 3.19, 21. when all things shall be restored to their primitive completeness, and we shall have a full refreshment by a removal of all the evils which we suffer by reason of sin. So that the satisfaction made by Christ extends not to a present removal of all the effects of the curse, pains of the body, death of relations, &c. The ground is not restored to its original vigour and fruitfulness, man must still eat his bread in the sweat of his brows, women must still bring forth with sorrow, our lives must waste by a continual invasion of weaknesses and diseases, we must drop one after another into the grave, send some before us, and leave others to come after us; tho God in mercy doth mitigate these, in some more, in some less, according to his Sovereign pleasure; and though those curses do materially continue, yet they are attended with a blessing, the fruits of Christs purchase. But the full value of Christs satisfaction will appear, when there shall be a new Heaven, & a new Earth, when the day of Redemption shall dawn, and all tears be wiped from believers eyes. But God never promised the total removal of them in this ⟨p. 80⟩life to any Saint, no though he should have all the Faith and Holiness of all the Catalogue of Saints in the book of life centred in him.
1. God intended not in the acceptance of Christs mediation to remove in this life all the punishments denounced after the fall. God takes away the eternal, but not the temporal. For this very punishment was threatned after his acceptance of Christs mediation, and after the compact and covenant between the Father and the Son, about their redemption of mankind, because the promise preceded the threatning, and the mediatory covenant preceded the promise. Some parts of Christs purchase are only payable in another life, and some fruits of Redemption God intends for growth only in another soyl; such are Freedom from pain, diseases, death & sin. And therefore the last day, when believers shall be gather'd together, is called by way of excellency, the day of Redemption, Eph. 4.30. as if we had nothing of Redemption properly in this life, because we have it not compleat. And it is called upon this account the time of refreshing and the time of the restitution of all things, Act. 3.19, 21. when all things shall be restored to their primitive compleatness, and we shall have a full refreshment by a removal of all the evils which we suffer by reason of sin. So that the satisfaction made by Christ extends not to a present removal of all the effects of the curse, pains of the body, death of relations, &c. The ground is not restored to its original vigor and fruitfulness, man must still eat his bread in the sweat of his brows, women must still bring forth with sorrow, our lives must waste by a continual invasion of weaknesses and diseases, we must drop one after another into the grave, send some before us, and leave others to come after us; tho God in mercy doth mitigate these, in some more, in some less, according to his Soveraign pleasure; and though those curses do materially continue, yet they are attended with a blessing, the fruits of Christs purchase. But the full value of Christs satisfaction will appear, when there shall be a new Heaven, & a new Earth, when the day of Redemption shall dawn, and all tears be wiped from believers eyes. But God never promised the total removal of them in this ⟨p. 80⟩life to any Saint, no though he should have all the Faith and Holiness of all the Catalogue of Saints in the book of life centred in him.
