A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

3. 'Tis a declaration of his Justice. 'Tis not congruous to the Justice of God not to leave some marks of his anger against that sin, which caused him to be at the expense of his Sons Blood, and is the source of all those evils whereby God is injured, for which the Redeemer bled, and by which the Spirit is grieved. Since Pardon doth not, neither can alter the demerit of sin, but that will continue; and what is once meritoriously a capital crime in its own nature, can never be otherwise; God may for the demonstration of his justice, inflict and continue something upon the creature, though he free him from actual condemnation. We should not be so sensible of the justice of God in the death of Christ, did we not feel some strokes of it upon our selves, nor what the purchase of our redemption did cost our Saviour: What we hear doth not so much affect as what we feel. That which brought disorder into Gods Government of the world, and made him change the Scene of his Providence, may very justly have some signal remark upon it, notwithstanding the Redemption, especially when the fruits of it are not fully complete: For since Man was the immediate end of the creation of this lower world, and since all Creatures were made for the service of Man, that he might be fit for the service of his righteous Creator, he did by his fall violate the order of the Creation, and subjected it to the service of the Devil, a corrupt Creature, and an enemy to God the chief Lord of the World, and so did deprave the order of the universe, and endeavoured to frustrate the end of God, and the end of all the Creatures. 'Tis very rational to think, that tho God out of his infinite compassion would not lose his creature, yet that he should set such a badge upon him, that should make him sensible of a depravation he had wrought in the world.

3. 'Tis a declaration of his Justice. 'Tis not congruous to the Justice of God not to leave some marks of his anger against that sin, which caused him to be at the expence of his Sons Blood, and is the source of all those evils whereby God is injur'd, for which the Redeemer bled, and by which the Spirit is grieved. Since Pardon doth not, neither can alter the demerit of sin, but that will continue; and what is once meritoriously a capital crime in its own nature, can never be otherwise; God may for the demonstration of his justice, inflict and continue something upon the creature, though he free him from actual condemnation. We should not be so sensible of the justice of God in the death of Christ, did we not feel some strokes of it upon our selves, nor what the purchase of our redemption did cost our Saviour: What we hear doth not so much affect as what we feel. That which brought disorder into Gods Government of the world, and made him change the Scene of his Providence, may very justly have some signal remark upon it, notwithstanding the Redemption, especially when the fruits of it are not fully compleat: For since Man was the immediate end of the creation of this lower world, and since all Creatures were made for the service of Man, that he might be fit for the service of his righteous Creator, he did by his fall violate the order of the Creation, and subjected it to the service of the Devil, a corrupt Creature, and an enemy to God the chief Lord of the World, and so did deprave the order of the universe, and endeavoured to frustrate the end of God, and the end of all the Creatures. 'Tis very rational to think, that tho God out of his infinite compassion would not lose his creature, yet that he should set such a badge upon him, that should make him sensible of a depravation he had wrought in the world.