The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance

So Daniel 9. 24.¹ The design in the Death of Christ, is to finish the Transgression, to make an end of Sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting Righteousness; Christ makes an end of sin: not that there should be no more sin in the world; for there is yet sinning to the purpose, in some respect,² much more then before his death; and there will be so to eternity, if those under the ultimate sentence may be thought to sin; but he makes an end of it, as to the Controversy and difference about it, between God,³ and them for whom he died; and that by making Reconciliation; On the part of God, atoning him toward us, which Atonement we are persuaded to accept:⁴ and by bringing in for us, a Righteousness, which is everlasting, and will abide the trial, which God will certainly accept: Now when God is satisfied for sin, and we are furnished with a Righteousness exactly complete, and answering to the utmost of his demand, whence can any more contest arise about the guilt of sin, or the obligation of the sinner unto punishment, that from the Justice and Law of God doth attend it? This also the Apostle urgeth Rom. 8. 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died. He argueth from the death of Christ to the ablation,⁵ or removal of Condemnation for sin; because by his death he hath made an end of sin, as was showed, and brought in everlasting Righteousness. To suspend the issue of all these transactions between God, and the Mediator, upon conditions by us to be accomplished, not bestowed on us, purchased for us, and as to their event uncertain, is disadvantageously to beg the thing in question.

So Daniel 9. 24.¹