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A62378	An exposition vvith notes on the whole fourth chapter to the the Romanes wherein the grand question of justification by faith alone, without works, is controverted, stated, cleared, and fully resolved ... / by William Sclater, Doctor in Divinity, sometimes minister of Gods word at Pitminster, in Summerset ; now published by his son, William Sclater, Batchelar in Divinity, minister at Collompton in Devon.	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.; Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1650 (1650)	Wing S918; ESTC R37207	141,740	211

may the better see the my stery of their iniquity in this point let us a little enquire how many things are to be considered in actuall sins For as touching concupiscence we will touch it only by the way In every actuall sin we must consider 1. The act it self with the anomie thereof wherein the nature of sin consists 1 Ioh. 3.4.2 The effects and consequents flowing therefrom as 1. the offence and displeasure of God 2. as Cajetan cals it the turpitude thereof Thom. 1a 2ae quaest 109. Art 7. which according to Thomas and others we will imagine to contain three things First Maculam the blemishing of the soul or person of a sinner and the deprivall of that beauty and comeliness of it wherewith by grace it is adorned Secondly The corruption or destroying of that naturall good that stands in the subjection of man to God Thirdly The encrease of prones to the same sin A Third consequent is the guilt that lyeth upon the person of the sinner and his liableness to punishment Fourthly The fourth let be the punishment it self Let us now apply their conclusion to some controversies betwixt us and them Sins they say when they are remitted are utterly abolished and extinct yea so done away that there remains nothing of them that can be reputed sin then I hope we may assume of every sin pardoned that it is wholly abolished What think we then of originall sin in infants after Baptisme Is it pardoned or no Yes for Baptisme so takes away sin that it leaves nothing that hath the true and proper nature of sin Well then how comes it to pass that many of them dye before ever they had ability to commit actuall sins Have they nothing left that hath the nature of sin and yet tast they of death the wages of sin Rom. 6.23 Far be it that the Judg of all the world should not do right in punishing an innocent that hath nothing left in him that hath the true and proper nature of sin Again had David true remission of his adultery and murther yea or no Yes no doubt for Nathan telleth him the Lord hath put away his sin 2 Sam. 12.13 Well yet David must be punished though his sin be put away as a Clowd and there remains no foot-print of it nothing that could be reputed sin Help us to reconcile these or else blush at your contractions Lastly Methinks the sin being wholly abolished the whole reatus accrewing to the person thereby should be withall extinct for what is it that binds us over to punishment of any sort temperall or eternal sin only I trow yet according to their judgment in remission of many sins there remains reatus poenae Temporalis as they give instance in Davids case Well one thing I perceive remission of sins is any thing but what it is that is a release and discharge of the sinner from punishment Let us now come to set down what our judgment is concerning remission of sins We thus conceive it out of Cyprian to be in property of speech Cyprian de Orat. Dom. nothing but Venia delicti the pardon of sins and that in common apprehension is the discharge of the offendor from the punishment of his sin and that which pardon or remission hath in property of speech respect unto is the punishment of sin The first phrase in Davids speech hath this meaning Their sins are forgiven or pardoned that is not taken notice of to be punished What is the covering of sin the same that pardon is in effect saith Ambrose save only that the phrase is metaphoricall unfold it it is this as things that are covered are not seen so sins when God will pardon them are not seen of him that is not seen with regard or which such notice as that he should punish them Are they then and not seen of him to whose eyes all things are naked and * Heb. 4.13 uncovered or is there any covering so thick or impenitrable as that the eyes of God cannot pierce through it to discern what lyeth under Answ None that so hides as that he cannot see or know that they are done Isai 29.15 But yet they are so covered with the righteousness of Christ to believers that God willingly overseeth them and takes no notice of them to punish the times of this ignorance God winked at saith the Apostle Act. 17.30 Num. 23.21 He hath not beheld iniquity in Iacob neither hath he seen trangression in Israel See Psal 130.3 Bernard Bern. de septem misericorde Serm. 2.3 Ego peccabam tu dissimulabas expectans expectavit me dominus non intendit mihi sed oculos suos avertit a peccatis meis quasi nolens advertere quantum delinquerem c. Si texit peccata Deus noluit advertere si noluit advertere noluit animadvertere si noluit animadvertere noluit punire noluit agnoscere maluit ignoscere Tecta peccata quare dixit vid August ad Psal 31. ut non viderentur quid enim erat dei videre peccata nisi punire peccata ut noveris quià hoc est dei videre peccata quod punire peccata quid ei dicitur averte faciem tuam a peccatis meis Psal 51. c. See we now What it is not to have sins imputed The same I think that Stephen prayes for Act. 7.60 that they be not laid to our charge nor come into reckoning against us before God to be punished 2 Sam. 19.19 Saith Shimei to David Let not my Lord impute iniquity unto me neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversly c. that the King should take it to his heart What begs Shimei here but that his offence be not punished But are they still where they are not imputed Answ Actuall sins as acts after committing have no being save only in Gods and our own remembrance Actus transit saith Thomas the sinfull action is transient and vanishing that only which results from the action remains As 1. The offence of God 2. The guilt of the person 3. The recording thereof in Gods book of remembrance and setting it on his reckoning against the day of accounts 4. The punishment 5. Add if you will the maculam Now when they are not imputed the offence guilt remembrance and punishment are taken away remains there any thing of them Nothing at all no not the macula Where then is the odds betwixt us Answ 1. Herein that they will have remission of sins to be that act of God whereby our vicious inclinations are abolished we not so but take it rather to be that other act of Gods Spirit in our hearts which the Scripture call sanctification 1 Cor. 6.11 2. That they affirm all sins remitted even by remitting to be utterly abolished We say for corruption naturall and our inclinations to evil they still remain in part in us after they be forgiven and have the true and proper reason of sin so that