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 from whatever he may thick of himſelf or whatever others may think concerning him he is a condemned man: It faith not, he ſhall be, but, he is condemned already. The reaſon is, for that he has deserved the ſentence of the miniſtration of condemnation, which is the law, yea, that law has a ready arraigned, accuſed, and condemned him before God, for that it hath found him guilty of ſin. Now he that is ſet free from this, or a the phraſe is, being made free from ſin, that i, from the imputation of guilt there can to him be no condemnation, no condemnation to hell-fire; but the perſon thus made free, may properly be ſaid to be ſaved. Wherefore, a ſometimes it is ſaid, we ſhall be ſaved, reſpecting ſaving in the ſecond ſenſe, or the utmoſt completing of ſalvation; ſo, ſometimes, it is ſaid we are ſaved, as reſpecting our being already ſecured from guilt and ſo from condemnation to hell for ſin, and ſo ſet ſafe, and quit from the ſecond death before God.

(2) Now, ſaving thus comes to us by what Chriſt did for us in this world by what Chriſt did for us as ſuffering for us. I ſay, it comes to us thus; that is it comes to us by grace, through the redemption that is in Chriſt. And thus to be ſaved, is called juſtification to life, becauſe one thus ſaved is, as I ſaid acquitted from guilt, and that everlaſting damnation to which for ſin, he had made himſelf obnoxious by the law.

Hence we are ſaid to be ſaved by the death of Chriſt juſtified by his blood, and reconciled to God by the death of his Son; all which muſt