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

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, Isa. 53. 5. He was wounded for our Transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed: and for this reason it is said, that he was made sin for us, 2 Cor. 5. 21. Now these sufferings that Christ thus underwent are the very matter of the satisfaction of the Law for sinners, that Righteousness which it accepts of upon this account, hence that in Rom. 8 34. Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that died.

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 threatned 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