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 CHAP. XI.] PBNAN( B,*S&TISF&(rTION. 041 hess. It nded tht something may fom, or at their fth d patience,  oer ues, shdbe exerced,   eir own ial d 0, d e nefit o hers which are ut them. These e e cipi visiMons th wch G ec* s cdren, but not punhmenM, pperl F  ced. This 8tinction will solve  ose tex of Scpte tht are bht bF the Romanis in (avour o; t doce o( h;acon or meri* ous suffering. 5. The docjne of human sathaction is wiout fon  Seep- tare, and i8 expres81 ast Scptum. O Saour Mught   pray, "Forve us our debM, (i.e., 8ins,)  we forve our debtors." But c any man be 8d to forve debt  another, and yet at e nine time rre the paent of it, eider in whole or in  ? ither, therefore, there i8 no punhent exucd after orveness, or our Saviour cods us  py for what od will never ant. Forvenes8 is represented in Scpture as off, e, as free and - tuitous, and  a pe effect of '8 undeseed fayour and ne. "Being freel F justified by his OaACE, tough e redemption wch is in Jesus," Rom. iii, 24. And this jtification by ace is incompati- ble with pardon by works; for "if it be by wor, it h no m of ce," Rom. xi, 6. But how can t accord wi the phh docne of forveness, which supposes tt we cnot be absolved m the punishment of ottr sins till we shall have d, hereafter, the uermt farthing for which we are accounable ? So far i8 God from exacting punishment aer forveness, at he expressly decides  the courtly. "I will forve their sins, d member their iquities no more," Jer. i, 34. "If the wicked will turn from all his 8ins that he ha committed, and keep all stu8, and do that wch i8 lawful and right, he shl surely live, shl not die. AH his tnsgre88ions which he hath coitted shall not be mentioned to m," Ezek. xviii, 21, 22. Now if God does not men,on or remember their sins, there is no fear that he w punish them arwa; d at e sinner,  prevent punishment, mus me a complete satisfaction  the &vine juscc, either by elf or he. The prophet lsah 8th: "The chastisement of our e was un m," liii, 5. "He th reconciled us in e body of his flesh, e us unblamable," &c., ol. i, 21, 22. Ain: "He hath o ties,"Isa. i, 5. "He hath delivered  from the ce of the law," Gal. iii, 13. Here Christ  represented as 5earg our tie, wch cey refers  temral suffering. Besides, the psh distinction between Mineral and etem punisl- men is script, and therefore we ve no auori to ke such distinctions, d fo, on t unscriu ncti, a vae of doc- trines, duties, and ceremonies, wch  to e the i o Ct.  the RomanM have cerinly done. But  prove e utter fallacy o human met and satefaction,  aping the jtice of , the sasfaction e by Jes Cht,  8ufferin and deh, b declared  be  8bluMIy ,ct d pbb n  effect the complem svion of 1 who believe d o �e 1. "By m   lieve e jmt from  n 

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