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 reconciliation to God by redemption through grace; and from the accompliſhing of this deſign I am ſaved by the bleſſed interceſſion of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt.

Object 1. Perhaps ſome may ſay, we are not ſaved from all puniſhment of ſin, by the death of Chriſt; ſo not from all danger of damnation by the interceſſion of Chriſt:

Anſw. We are ſaved from all puniſhment in hell-fire by the death of Chriſt. Jeſus has delivered us from the wrath to come. So that as to this great puniſhment. God, for his ſake, has forgiven us all treſpaſſes. But we being tranſlated from being ſlaves to Satan, to be ſons of God, God relenteth yet this liberty in his hand to chaſtiſe us if we offend, as a father chaſtiſeth his ſon; but this chaſtiſement is not in legal wrath but in fatherly affection not to deſtroy us, but that ſtill we might be made to get advantage thereby, even be made partakers of his holineſs. that we might not be condemned with the world.

THE APPLICATION.

I come now to make ſome Application of this diſcourſe. And let me exhort you to the ſtudy of this as of other the truths of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt. The prieſtly office of Chriſt, is the firſt and great thing that is preſented to us in the goſpel: namely, How that he died for our ſins, and gave himſelf to the croſs, that the bleſſing of Abraham might come upon us through him. But now, becauſe this