ande.Morál Work!. i 2 i admire the Law, and their national priviledges under it , that they thought that the exa& keepingof it was neceffary and fufficient to Jufti- fication and Salvation : And they thought the Meffiah was not to be their Righteoufnefs, as a Sacrifice for Sin, and Meriter of freePardon, and the Gift of Life, but only a great King and Deliverer, to redeem them by Power from all their Enemies and Bondage. 4. That it was not Adam's Covenant of Innocency or Perfe&ton which the yews thus trufted to, or Paul doth fpeak againftas to Juftification ( thougha mi- pore ad majus, that alfo is excluded.) For the yews knew that they were Sinners, and that God pardoned Sin as a merciful God, and that their raani= de Leg.er Grat. Law had Sacrifices for Pardon and Expiation, with Confefíions, &c. eth the varioueil cpss, But they thought that fo faras God had made that Law fufficient to which the Law Sloth or political ends, and to temporal Rewards and Punifhments, it had been doth hal of pr mu eougc fufficient to eternal Rewards andPunifhments 5 and that of it Pelf, and his two Books is much not in meet fubordination to the typified Mefiah. Therefore they worth the adingoiaw thought that he that keptthe Law Co far as to comic no fin which the Law and Gofpel:See Mr.At- punithedwithdeath or abfciffion, and that for all his other pardonable Ira'sTreat. of the Two fins, performed the requiredPenances and Sacrifices, was by this, which fate;And'Mr. Truma,t s is called The Works of the Laws that is, the keeping of the Law, a Great. Prepitiat.withthe righteous juftifiable perron. g. That the thing therefore which Paul Appeat difproveth them by is, L. That the Law was never made for fuch an end. 2. That even then it Rood in fubordination to Redemption and free-given life. 3. That the freeGift or Covenant of Grace con- taining the Promife of the Meffìah, and Pardonand Life by him, was before the Law, and juftified Abraham and others even without it 4. That their Lawwas fo ftri&, that no man could perfe&ly keep it all. g. That everySin deferveth death indeed, though their Law pu- nifhed not every finwith death by theMagiftrate. 6. That their Law was neverObligatory to the Gentile world, who hada Lawwritten in their Hearts; and therefore not the common way of Juftification. * 7. That their Law, as fuch, difcovered fin, but gave not the Spirit Salt ¡eniar. ro. s. of Grace to overcome it: Infomuch as thoughhe himfelf defired per t.g. aiferteth, T.hatthe feily to fulfil it without fin, yet he could not, but was under a capti- hieoa ere be bet she vity , that is , a moral neceffity of imperfe&ion, or fins of infirmity, new, is, that the old was from which only theGrace of Chrift could as to guilt andpower deli- written vl uinhStone óiÿ ver him. 8. That noman ever came to Heaven by that wayof merit in memory and in the which they dreamed of, but all by the way of Redemption , Grace, hearyandfomakeththe free Gift and pardoning Mercy. Therefore their conceit that"they Cperereidy gis Laweh n he were juft inthe main, and forgiven their fins, and fo juftifiable by the Sciptue,, panic¢ eer dignity o f they by the tat occalions.Batthough we thankfully confers that the elfentials of Chriflianity are fo plain and few as may be re- membred, yet theCried is contained and ex- plained in theScripture, and without written Re- cords, our Faith would have been but ill pre. ferved, as experience and reafon prove. m f Moe's Lawwhich kept, and the Works of Law, and not by the freeGift, Pardon and Grace of a Redeemer, and by the Faith and pra&ical belief of that Gift, and acceptance of it, with thankful "penitent obedient hearts, was a perniciouserrour. But the true way ofRighteoufnefs was to become true Chriftians, that is, with such a penitent thankful, accepting, pra&ical belief or affiance to believe in God as the Giverof Salvation, in Chrift as theRedeemer, and his Spirit as our Life and San&ifier, and to accept Chrift and all his procured Benefits, Juftífication and Life,as purchafed by his Sacrifice and meritorious Righteoufnefs, and given in the New Covenant on this condition, and fo to give up ourfelves to his whole Paving-work, as to the Phyfician ofour Souls, andonly Mediator with God. This is the fumof Paul'sDo&rine on this point. 363. I fay againtherefore, for any man to fay that tonne one phyfical aft, either affent, or content, or affiance, upon one particular Obje& R (thrift's
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