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4. That because pardon belongs to Justification• hence it must needs have a respect to a Righteousness from whence it proceeds. We have already taken notice of the difference between mens pardoning a Criminal, and Gods forgiving a Sinner: their pardon is not a Justification, […] his is; theirs proceeds from mere mercy, his from mercy tempered with Justice; theirs is entirely prerogative, but his hath a respect to a Law […] which he must be just in it, Rom. 3. 26. and th• refers not to his Sovereign Justice barely, which […] nothing else but his Supremacy, but his Relative Justice, as he is Law giver, and hath constitute• a way of procedure with his Creature. In th• therefore there must be a Righteousness regard• by him, to which he hath an eye in the very pardoning of the Sinner, and that Righteousness must be such as will answer it, so that mercy and truth may meet together, &c. Psal. 85. 10.

4. That because pardon belongs to Justification• hence it must needs have a respect to a Righteousness from whence it proceeds. We have already taken notice of the difference between mens pardoning a Criminal, and Gods forgiving a Sinner: their pardon is not a Justification, 〈…〉 his is; theirs proceeds from meer mercy, his from mercy tempered with Justice; theirs is entirely prerogative, but his hath a respect to a Law 〈…〉 which he must be just in it, Rom. 3. 26. and th• refers not to his Soveraign Justice barely, which 〈…〉 nothing else but his Supremacy, but his Relative Justice, as he is Law giver, and hath constitute• a way of procedure with his Creature. In th• therefore there must be a Righteousness regard by him, to which he hath an eye in the very pardoning of the Sinner, and that Righteousness must be such as will answer it, so that mercy and truth may meet together, &c.