A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Answer. To this, I Answer, Pardon of sin doth not remove the intrinsical desert of punishment, but only the adventitious appointment and ordination of it unto punishment, flowing from the Will of God, who hath in his own Law threatened to punish sin. Remission doth not make that the sins, even of Believers themselves should not deserve Death; for a liableness to the penalty of the Law, in this sense is a necessary consequent upon the Transgression of the Law: But because God, in the Covenant of Grace, hath promised not to reward his Penitent Servants according to the evil of their doings, therefore Pardoning Grace removes this guilt of sin arising from God's Ordination of it unto punishment. As now suppose a Traitor should accept of the proffer of a Pardon, the guilt of his Treason ceaseth not in the inward nature of it, but still he deserves to be punished: but this Obnoxiousness of his through the Prince's Favour and Appointment is taken away, and so that guilt ceaseth. So the Repenting Sinner, every sin he commits deserves Death; but upon his believing ⟨p. 47⟩in the Lord Jesus Christ, this liableness unto Death ceaseth, being graciously remitted to them by God.

Answer. To this, I Answer, Pardon of sin doth not remove the intrinsical desert of punishment, but only the adventitious appointment and ordination of it unto punishment, flowing from the Will of God, who hath in his own Law threatned to punish sin. Remission doth not make that the sins, even of Believers themselves should not deserve Death; for a liableness to the penalty of the Law, in this sence is a necessary consequent upon the Transgression of the Law: But because God, in the Covenant of Grace, hath promised not to reward his Penitent Servants according to the evil of their doings, therefore Pardoning Grace removes this guilt of sin arising from God's Ordination of it unto punishment. As now suppose a Traytour should accept of the proffer of a Pardon, the guilt of his Treason ceaseth not in the inward nature of it, but still he deserves to be punished: but this Obnoxiousness of his through the Prince's Favour and Appointment is taken away, and so that guilt ceaseth. So the Repenting Sinner, every sin he commits deserves Death; but upon his believing ⟨p. 47⟩in the Lord Jesus Christ, this liableness unto Death ceaseth, being graciously remitted to them by God.