( 271 ) which is Decrecd them. In a word, It confounds the nature of purpofes and prornifes, deftroyes themain ufe, ifnot the Effence of all Laws, Prornifes and Contrats,and fo fubverts all Govern- ment, Divine and humane ; and civil commerce among men. I may be bound to God to performmy purpofes ( yet not alway ) but if hereby I give Right to men to all that I purpofed them, all the world is ignorant as well as I. Argument 6. f we are Pardoned, 'unified or Abfolved from Guilt,either from Eternity,becaufe it was then Decreed, or from Chrifts death, becaufe it was then Merited ; then would all real effects ofDecree, and of Chrifis death, (aswell as the Relative ) be fromEternity,or from Chrifis death But the Confequent is falfe : therefore fo is the Antecedent. If we are therefore abfol- ved, becaufe our Abfolution is Decreed or Merited, then on the fame Reafon we are Sandified, raifed from the dead, glorified ' becaufe thefe are Decreed and Merited,therebeing the fame ode and reafon of both. Argument 7. Ifneither fromEternity, nor the time ofChrifts undertaking, nor any time beforewewere born, or believed , we were made Heirs of the Promife and Kingdom,thenwere we not Pardoned, "unified, or Abfolved from the guilt of death. But that the Antecedent is true,' prove by thefe Scriptures following. .Heb. i i. 7, By Faith Noah being Warned of God of things not Peen, asyet moved withfear, prepared an ,l/frkto the laving of his houfe, by the which he condemned the world, andbecame heir of the Righteoufnefs which is by Faith. Tit. 3 7, That being lufliiiedby his grace,we fhould be made heirs according to the hope of eternal Life. Gal. 3. 26, 29. Forye are all the children of cod by Faith in Chrifi. lefus. And ifye be Chrifls,then are ye Abrahams feed and heirs according to the Promife. Gal 1. 7. erind if a Son then an heir of god through Chq. v. 30. Thelon of the bond-Woman "hall not be heir, &c. 28. Nowwe, brethren, as Ifaac was, are the children of Promift. Rom. 4. 1 , '120 3, 14. That he might be the Father of all them that believe, tip they be not circumcifed, that Righteoufnefs might be imputed unto them alto. And the Father of Circumcifion to themWho arenot of the Circumcifion only, but alfo Walk in the fleps of that Faith of our Father Abraham, &c. For the Promife that hefhouldbe Heir of the world, Was not to Abra- ham orhisfeed through the -Law, but through the Righteoufnefs of
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