(257) eft , nobir traditpm. Sayr. Clay. Reg. li. 9. cap. 3. n. Some Reafons that perfwade me, that we are fo far frombeing pardoned and abfolved at Chrifts death, that we had not fo much as Right tobe pardoned and abfolved for the future abfolutely in diem', are thefe. I. We werenot exiftent, and fo not fubjeas capable of aeual Right : As our felves were only in caufa,potentia,& effe cognitio, volito, fo only muft our Right be. God might, as it were, ob- lige himfelf to give us Right when we were, and were capable of it ; and fo it might be faid tobe juft that he should give it. But we didnot receive it till we were, and therefore it was, not ours. 2. if God had before given us Abfolutely tight ad eem,then he wouldnot haveafter made a Conditional Grant ofthe fame thing to us. :But he did after make a Conditional grant ofthe fame thing to us : therefore, The Major is plain, becaufe it would be a, retracting ofhis for- mer Abfolute Grant : For as a flat denyal would have beena to- tal retraction, fo to reduce an Abfolute Gift to a Conditional, is a partial retraction : This then would feem non-Pflum yea in- jufturn , or contrary to the former engagement. I would prove this more fully, but that it is not denyed. The thing that by the forefaid Learned man is denyed is the Conditional Grant : He affirmeth that it is Abfolute rub termino , and faith it is falfe that ( the Redeemed while Infidels ) are but upon Condition under (Thrifts Merit, even fo far under, as that in refpect of food or Evil their Condition is alike with thofe under Demerit, in point of Right. But whether Chrift , Peter,Tatil, hold not that as truewhich he faith is falfe, and make not Faith and Repentance ( or one at leaft, ) Conditions of juftification or Salvation, I appeal to the frequent exprefs words oldie text, and to the whole world of Di- vines. 3. If God made over to us at Chrifts death a Jos ad rem, a Right to future pardon Abfolurely, then it was, either by fome Promife, or fignal Grant, or by meer Decree and Furpofe But by neither of thefe ; therefore not at all. There can no other way be imagined rationally that I concQive of,unlefs they fay that facto, by accepting Chrifts facrifice,he gave us Iau ad rem, of which we fball (peak anon ; and now only deny it. That Decree L I gives
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