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First: In Pardon, God shows himself just. §2He declareth his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins, that are past. Remission ⟨p. 142⟩looks backward, Righteousness forward; Pardon relateth to a state past already, Righteousness to a state future, the State of a Sinner for the time to come. Now in both these, God's design is to declare himself a just God: in Remission he declareth himself a just God: by pardoning upon the account of satisfaction (by the justice of God we are to understand the infinite severity of God in punishing sin in a way agreeable to the nature of his justice) and this God eminently declareth, ¹as in the Eternal Damnation of the Reprobates in their own persons; so even in pardoning the sins of the Elect, while he doth not pardon them, ²but upon the account of a valuable consideration, namely (as in the beginning of the verse) of that propitiation, or propitiatory Sacrifice, which Christ hath made to divine justice by his Blood, apprehended by Faith. Whether God could not have pardoned sin by absolute Prerogative, is an enquiry of an extrinsic consideration to this place; since the Text informs us, God was resolved to Consult his own Honour, as well as the Creatures Happiness, in this great Act of jurisdiction, ³namely, Pardoning of Sin: and purposed in Himself (as highest reason requireth) to pity Sinners so far as He might not be Cruel to Himself, and to show Mercy to them, in such a way, as he might not wrong his own glorious Attributes, and cast no blemish upon his Law and Government.

First: In Pardon, God shews himself just. §2He declareth his Righteousness for the Remission of Sins, that are past. Remission ⟨p. 142⟩looks backward, Righteousness forward; Pardon relateth to a state past already, Righteousness to a state future, the State of a Sinner for the time to come. Now in both these, God's design is to declare himself a just God: in Remission he declareth himself a just God: by pardoning upon the accompt of satisfaction (by the justice of God we are to understand the infinite severity of God in punishing sin in a way agreeable to the nature of his justice) and this God eminently declareth,