Mr. Owcn. ( 254) vered it out of his ownhand, when yet there is a certain fpace of time before it !hail come to the Butt or Mark : So in thefe civil a6tions or motions, a Donor that gives a thing in diem,or a Con- traetor that cloth Promife it in deem, may ( if the Donation be Abfolute) irrevocablypanttsm in fe, part with his right, or emit the Right , or perform fuch an adwhich !hall give Right quando venit dies : but donec venit dies, till the fet time, the Right is not received by the Legatory, Donatory, &c. it comes not to him ; and fo is not his. And if it be thus in an Abfolute Donation, which is in diem,much more in a Conditional, where the Recepti- on is fufpendedon a Condition.Contingent in it felf,and uncertain to the party that is to perform it.And efpecially where the fubjeet to receive it is not yet in being. Mens Covenants in fuch cafes, do but contain that fignification oftheir will which null then prove fandamentnyn lurks, or give Right to the child when it is born , and be intrufted in the mean time in the hands of others for them, if they Thal! exit. Obj. But we have before we are in being .a 7us ad Rem,though not a Jos in re, becaufe God promifed it to Chrift for us, or to us in him; and it is jut that God makegood his Promifes,and there- fore we have Right to it. Anftt. I shall the rather fpeak to this Objeaion becaufe the late mentioned * learnedman builds fogreat a Fabrick on it i.The things towhich we are fad to have Right, is, Thegood thing., pm-- chafed. Abfolution from guilt, and fo pardon of fin, is one of the good things purchafed. if this be fo , all is granted that we de- fire, as to the point in hand. For he that 'lath but right to a par- don or Abfolution ( though it were abfolutely granted in diem) is not yet pardoned or abfolved : There mull be the ins in re,be- fore he can truly and properly be faid tobe pardoned and abfol- ved. While he hath but a right to be abfolved for the future, it is certain that he is not Abfolved at the prefent. Even as he is not fandified or glorified, that bath not the thing it Pelf, and fo a ISM in re, but only a Insad rem, a right to be Sandified and Glorifi- ed. Therefore for all this ( pretended ) Right ad rem, noneare A.bfolved or Pardoned from the timeof Chrifts death, much lefs from Eternity. a, But I maintain that we had no aftual right ad rem,to future Remiffion
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