The first Reason why all Gods children are delivered from the dominion of sin is, because that all the reign of sin, both as a Lord and as a Judge, both to damnation and to obedience, it all cometh through the justice of God, which hath lest us thereto, to punish all sins in Adam: Now Jesus Christ he satisfieth the justice of God, he appeaseth the wrath of God, in all particulars wherein we have provoked him: Gods justice being satisfied, he takes off the punishment, and so delivereth his people for whom Christ hath satisfied from the dominion of sin, both to obedience, and to damnation. This then is the first Reason, Because Christ he hath satisfied the justice of God, and hath delivered all his people from that curse, and that misery that lay upon them by the Law. This is that you have in Gal. 4. 5. God sent his Son made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law. We are under the Law in a twofold respect: First, we were under the accidental power of the Law, whereby the Law through our corruption did multiply transgressions in our souls, and beget sin upon us, as a man begetteth children. Secondly, We were under the Law in respect of the curse of the Law, the Law cursing all that broke it, and cursing of them to damnation: we were under the curse of the Law in this respect. Now Christ hath redeemed ⟨p. 95⟩all his children from under the Law in both these respects: First, in the first respect, he hath redeemed all his children from under that accidental power of the Law, where by the Law had power through our corruption to multiply transgression upon occasion of every Commandment it gave; for the Law of God commanding and forbidding, and our corruption being strong in us, we broke every Commandment, and so the Law occasioned a multiplication of transgression: Now the Lord Christ hath delivered us from under this accidental power of the Law in some measure; so that how soever still through the remainder of corruption, the Law occasioneth a great many sins in us, because it commandeth, and we do not obey; yet the Law doeth not occasion any reigning sin, because there is nothing the Law commandeth but we obey it in some measure, I pray observe it. They love the Law of God, they strive to obey it, they grieve when they cannot obey it, now this according to the Gospel is counted obedience.
The first Reason why all Gods children are delivered from the domnion of sin is, because that all the reign of sin, both as a Lord and as a Judge, both to damnation and to obedience, it all cometh through the justice of God, which hath lest us thereto, to punish all sins in Adam: Now Jesus Christ he satisfieth the justice of God, he appeaseth the wrath of God, in all particulars wherein we have provoked him: Gods justice being satisfied, he takes off the punishment, and so delivereth his people for whom Christ hath satisfied from the dominion of sin, both to obedience, and to damnation. This then is the first Reason, Because Christ he hath satisfied the justice of God, and hath delivered all his people from that curse, and that misery that lay upon them by the Law. This is that you have in Gal. 4. 5. God sent his Son made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law. We are under the Law in a twofold respect: First, we were under the accidentall power of the Law, whereby the Law through our corruption did multiply transgressions in our souls, and beget sin upon us, as a man begetteth children. Secondly, We were under the Law in respect of the curse of the Law, the Law cursing all that broke it, and cursing of them to damnation: we were under the curse of the Law in this respect. Now Christ hath redeemed ⟨p. 95⟩all his children from under the Law in both these respects: First, in the first respect, he hath redeemed all his children from under that accidentall power of the Law, where by the Law had power through our corruption to multiply transgression upon occasion of every Commandement it gave; for the Law of God commanding and forbidding, and our corruption being strong in us, we broke every Commandement, and so the Law occasioned a multiplication of transgression: Now the Lord Christ hath delivered us from under this accidentall power of the Law in some measure; so that how soever still through the remainder of corruption, the Law occasioneth a great many sins in us, because it commandeth, and we doe not obey; yet the Law doeth not occasion any reigning sin, because there is nothing the Law commandeth but we obey it in some measure, I pray observe it. They love the Law of God, they strive to obey it, they grieve when they cannot obey it, now this according to the Gospel is counted obedience.
