A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

3. To each of these parts these is required […] answerable righteousness. If man had never sinned, one righteousness had sufficed for him, and there had been no occasion for the other; but now he is become a sinner before God that will not do, but he needs a doubt righteousness: For,

3. To each of these parts these is required 〈…〉 answerable righteousness. If man had never sinned, one righteousness had sufficed for him, and there had been no occasion for the other; but now he is become a sinner before God that will not do, but he needs a doub• righteousness: For,

1. In order to a sinners acquittance from guilt there must be a Pardon procured for him, and applied unto him. This is a plain and known thing, that where offence or transgression […] the Law hath gone before, there a pardon properly attends upon Justification, and he cannot be justified except the offence be for given: for the Law in its charging of […] upon him doth together condemn him for it and adjudgeth him to suffer the threatened death: and till such time as that be suffered either by himself, or his Surety in his stead the Law is not satisfied, nor will ever give ⟨p. 41⟩him acquittance: As for the prerogative which (among men) the supreme Judge assumeth to give a free pardon without satisfaction to one condemned by Law, it is a liberty which he enjoys above the Law, and there may be great reason for it in some cases: but this consideration hath no room in the present case, for God is resolved to proceed in all things according to the Law which he hath constituted; and this infers the necessity of the Passive Obedience of Christ, his Death, his Sufferings, his undergoing of all that which we should have undergone ourselves: this the great Judg must have to look upon and regard in his setting of the Prisoner free, who was a lawful captive; and for this we read such expressions,