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2. Hence, in it, the Sentence of the Law Condemning him is removed: This is the very thing it doth: The penalty of the Law was Death, and he, by being exposed to it, was a man of Death; but a pardon brings with it a revoking of that Sentence. God, when he pardons the Sinner, saith that he shall not Die but Live; the Curse of the Law shall not take place upon him, but he shall be delivered from it. It is excellently expressed. Job 33 24. Deliver him from going down to the pit. Hence that conclusion, Rom. 8. 1. There is now no more Condemnation: the Sin remains; for that which hath once been done, cannot be undone: the merit abides; it will be for ever true, That the man hath done things worthy of Death: but the Sentence it self is revoked. How this is done, consistent with the Justice of God, will be enquired in a following Doctrine: but so it is; a pardoned man is out of the reach of the Law in its Curses: He is for ever delivered from his Judge.

2. Hence, in it, the Sentence of the Law Condemning him is removed: This is the very thing it doth: The penalty of the Law was Death, and he, by being exposed to it, was a man of Death; but a pardon brings with it a revoking of that Sentence. God, when he pardons the Sinner, saith that he shall not Dy but Live; the Curse of the Law shall not take place upon him, but he shall be delivered from it. It is excellently expressed. Job 33 24. Deliver him from going down to the pit. Hence that conclusion, Rom. 8. 1. There is now no more Condemnation: the Sin remains; for that which hath once been done, cannot be undone: the merit abides; it will be for ever true, That the man hath done things worthy of Death: but the Sentence it self is revoked. How this is done, consistent with the Justice of God, will be enquired in a following Doctrine: but so it is; a pardoned man is out of the reach of the Law in its Curses: He is for ever delivered from his Judge.