( 24/ ) the promife of the Inheritance, then was it no effe1 of Chrifts death, togive that. Promife to the uncalled, ( and if not the Pro- mile of eternal Inheritance, then not of Abfolution, for it is con- felled that they go together) : But the Antecedent is true : there- fore fo is the Confequent. Argument 29. From Jam. 5. 20. Let himknow,that he Ithich converteth the fanner from the errour of his way , fhall fave a foul from death, and 'ball hide a multitude of fins. So Mark, 4. i 2. Left at any time theyfhould be converted, and theirfins fhould beforgiven them. If upon Converfionmens fins be forgiven them , hidden, and their fouls faved from death,then were they not forgiven,and Abfolved from the guilt ofdeath before. But the Antecedent is true : therefore fo is the Confequent. It cannot here be faid that it is in confcience only that all this is done : for that were not to fave afoul fromdeath, but to fave a foul from the forrowful ap- prehenfions of death ( which yet the wicked are feldom troubled with ) if that the man were faved and abfolved from the guilt ofdeath before. Nor were this to forgive them fo properly, as to acquaint them that they were long before forgiven. Argument 30. From AC1.26.18. To open their eyes , and turn them fromdarknefs to light, andfrom the power of Satan unto God, that they may receiveRemifflon of fin, and Inheritance among them that arefaniiified, by Faith that is in me. If it be Gods Order to givemen illumination, and Faith that they may receive Remifsion of fins then their fins were not before Remitted : But this is Gods Order : therefore, They receive not what they had before. Argument 3t. From Rom. 8. 3o. Whom he called, them 4110 he 7afiified, &c. Juftification is placed according to Gods Order be- tween Calling and Glorifying- : therefore it is not before we be- lieved or were born. The more are thefe two tail cited Texts to be regarded, becaufe they do the molt clearly, and as, of purpofe exprefs the order of the caufes of falvation, or of God in con- veying to us the faving fruits..ofChrifts death, ofany that I know of in Scripture. .5, Argument 3 2. From Pfal. 32. 1,2, 3. with Rom. 4.6, 7,8, 9. Bleffed is he whofe tranfgreffion isforgiven whofe fin is covered. Bleffed is the man to whom theLord imputeth not iniquity, and in Whole Spirit there as noguile. And Paul fheweth, that all this is I i when
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