( I16) COOC1M. 22. I do believe that Jefus Chrift bath a fpecial I awof Grace, which though it have the promife of life for its molt emi- nent part, yet alfo contained] a peremptory threatning of Reme- dilefs deftrudion to men, if they will not Repent and Believe And though I know that no Believer is fo under this Threatning , as to be guilty by it, and obliged to damnation, yet is he fo under it, as every fubjeci is under the Penal Laws, who do not incurre the penalty. The threatning of this Law, fpeaks to Believers as well as to others. God doth not only fay to Infidels, if you be- lieve not you fhall perifh ; but alfo to Believers, If any man shall draw back, my foul Chan haveno pleafure in him. And if ye 'forfake him, he alfo will fOrfake you. naps. 23. I do fully believe , that when a true Believer is aertually Juftified, from all his fins paft, yet that alt the continu- ance or non-amifsion of that Juilitied Rate, and alfo the pardon of all following fins. and alfo his final Abfolution in Judgement, are all !till Conditional Though i believe that they are certainly and infallibly future, and the event foretold in Scripture,and God, as it were, engaged to accomplifb it, and that God bath actually and abfolutely Decreed it, (I mean, there is no Condition of the ad of his Decree, and alfo that he bath Decreed immutably the - infallible futurition of the event ) : and a fober man would think that this were enough to free me, from their charge of Arminia- nifin 4 Yetftill i am certain, the Promife doth give us perfonally our Right to there benefits on condition, The fame God that faw it meet to Decree the event abfolutely, did alfo fee it meet to accomplifh that Decree, by making a conditional Grant or Pro- tilde of theblefsing, and toenable his elect to perform the Con- dition, that fo he might lead men to heaven under. his Govern- ment by.a Law, and the force of its motives, and not as bruits, nor as mafterlefs, and .Lawlefs. And they that deny this, thew them- felves too bruitifh or lawlefs to be Divines ; and know not what the Lawof the King,ofSaints is,and therefore are unfit to preach and expound it. Yea, though-a Believer attain to never fo great certainty that be (hall eventually perfevere and be faxed, and abfolved at Taft, yet is it neverthelefs conditionally given in the Promife ; and his , affurance is not becaufe there is no Condition, but becaufe he is affured he fball perform the Condition (which affu. rance,,
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