The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

1. In that Sin is not objected before God's Will as it would have been, had not Christ satisfied; it would have been objected before it, as that just cause for which God might, nay, according to the naturality of his Justice and veracity of his Law must have punished us Sinners to all Eternity: But now it is not so objected before it; for albeit there be an intrinsical and inseparable desert of wrath in the nature of it, yet now its obligation or redundancy upon the Sinner appears not, because expiated in the Surety: this the Apostle calls the reconciling of sin, Heb. 2. 17. Without Christ's death Sin like a fury ⟨p. 244⟩would have cried and clamoured for wrath and vengeance to be poured down on the Sinner, but through his death Sin as one reconciled hath nothing to say against him, but that he may have Life and Salvation on Gospel-terms.

1. In that Sin is not objected before God's Will as it would have been, had not Christ satisfied; it would have been objected before it, as that just cause for which God might, nay, according to the naturality of his Justice and veracity of his Law must have punished us Sinners to all Eternity: But now it is not so objected before it; for albeit there be an intrinsecal and inseparable desert of wrath in the nature of it, yet now its obligation or redundancy upon the Sinner appears not, because expiated in the Surety: this the Apostle calls the reconciling of sin, Heb. 2. 17. Without Christ's death Sin like a fury ⟨p. 244⟩would have cried and clamoured for wrath and vengeance to be poured down on the Sinner, but through his death Sin as one reconciled hath nothing to say against him, but that he may have Life and Salvation on Gospel-terms.