And for a Conclusion, this I adde.
The grace of God in the Redemtion wrought by Christ, and fruits to all men there through extended; binding much more to the Love of God and our Neighbour, Then the grace testified in Creation: all fail∣ings and sinnings herein, are not only against the Law in the one, but in both respects; The Preface to the commands, using also the motives from both. Exod. 20. 1 Job. 3.4. And all done by mans strength, and hu∣mane Consideration of both motives, is but Service according to Law, and oldnesse of Letter, and that impertect and short of it also. Joh. 3.6. Rom. 7.5, 6. Gal. 3.10. So that sinnes so locked on, are against both Law and Gospel also. Rom. 3.10, 24. & 2.4, 5. The remaining of any part of Punishment, till Christs time of taking it off, may be rightly called Punnishment, because it came on men, for sinnes at first. Gen. 3.19. Lam. 3.39. And so may the stripes imposed for sinnings against Grace, because for such sinnings they are imposed. Hos. 12.2. Psal. 89.30, 31, 32. Lam. 4.22. And they may be rightly called, Punishments and Chastisements, because they cause sense of Paine; Corrections, because they come to straighten and amend. Levit. 26.41. Hab. 1.12. Afflictions, be∣cause they Presse, and cause to appeare what is in man. Isai. 26.16.19. Try∣alls; Becavse they serve to Prove, Exercise, and manifest. Jam. 1.2, 3. Pet. 1.6, 7. Sufferings for Christ and the Gospel, are in themselves an honour and blessing, yet such sufferings may be also sometimes, so mixt. That they may have in some respect, all the former names also. Heb. 12.2.11. Yet in all this, God is just, and deprives Christ of no part of his due, nor any other of that, which is right for them, by Christ's Dispensation to enjoy. Nor are any of these Sufferings, a requiring againe of the debt, or any part of the debt Christ paid. Nor in any sort to make up any want therein; for Propitiation, Sa∣tisfaction, and Ransome, for the end, for which Christ gave it.
The cleering whereof, is the scope of these fore-written Lines.