As he was man he suffered, as God he satisfied. By Christ's death and merits, God's justice is more abundantly satisfied than if we had suffered the pains of hell for ever. The dignity is not in faith as a grace, but relatively, as it lays hold on Christ's merits. The whole Trinity. Hereby God raises the everlasting trophies of his own honour.
Justification is crowned with glorification.
We could never have been condemned, if we were justified from eternity. Therefore their sins were uncancelled, and their persons unjustified, till they did repent. Though God does not justify us for our repentance, yet not without it. The Antinomians erroneously hold, that we are justified from eternity. Before I come to the uses, I shall lay down four maxims or positions about justification.