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6. What is the Extent of this Sentence?

Answ. The Description saith, that Christ's Satisfaction thus applied, the Father doth two Things,

1. He absolves them from all Guilt and Condemnation of Sin, so that in this Sense, he sees no Iniquity in Jacob, Chastisements they may now have after Justification, but no Punishments; Crosses not Curses; such as destroy their Sins, no Punishments to destroy their Souls: Hence those Phrases in Scripture, Scattering Sins as a Mist, blotting them out, remembering them •o more, setting them out as far as the East is from the West: For Christ being made Sin for his People, and this being imputed, he abolishing all Sin, by one Offering, Heb. 10. Hence all are forgiven; and hence it is that there can be no Suit in Law against a Sinner, the Law being satisfied, and the Sinner absolved; nay, hence Sin is condemned, and the Sinner spared, Rom. 8.3. as Christ died for us, so he was acquitted for us, and we in him; we in him in Redemption, ⟨p. 198⟩we by him in actual Faith and Application. Whether all Sins, past, present, and to come, are actually forgiven at the first Instant of believing, I will not, dare not determine; this is safe to say,

1. He absolves them from all Guilt and Condemnation of Sin, so that in this Sense, he sees no Iniquity in Jacob, Chastisements they may now have after Justification, but no Punishments; Crosses not Curses; such as destroy their Sins, no Punishments to destroy their Souls: Hence those Phrases in Scripture, Scattering Sins as a Mist, blotting them out, remembring them o more, setting them out as far as the East is from the West: For Christ being made Sin for his People, and this being imputed, he abolishing all Sin, by one Offering,