Calvin in Math.6.Ir. Neq; enim Re- mittere dicitar Creditor, qui accepta rola- tione nibil am- pliscs exigit; fed qui ultra & liberalita jure fuo cedens ab folvit debito- rms. (272) Faith. For if they which are of the Law, be heirs Faith L. made void, and the Prornife made of none effeti. Ron8. 16 17. end if children , thenheirs , heirs of god, and joyxt heirs With Chrift . Ephef. 3 6. That the Gentiles Aottld be fellow heirs and of the Berne body, and partakers of his Promife in Chrifi by the Gofpel. Jam. 2. 5. Hath not Godcbojen the poor ofThis world rich in Faith,Heirt of the Kingdom, which God bath Promifed to them that dove him ? The Confequence is of apparent verity . Peeing the word Heirs expreffeth their Right. He therefore that is not Heir of the Promife, or according to the Piornife, or heir of the Kingdom , cannot have Right in Remiffion, Abfolution fromguilt, vr Jufti- fication : and therefore cannot be Pardoned Abfolved , fled. QA-rgaiment 8. If the Eled were all Juftified or Abfolved in Chrift as the publike perfon , or having themfelves fatisfied or merited in, and by him ( which is the common foundation ofthe adverfe opinion) then they are Juftified or Abfolved without any Pardon of fin, merited by Chrift for them : But the Confequent is falfe, and deftrudive to the Chriftian Religion : therefore the Antecedent is not true. The Confequence ( which only needs proof) is thus mani- felt to be found. z. Chrift was Juftified , or Abfolved without pardon : there- fore if the Elea were Juftified or Abfolved in Chrift as the pub- like pelf n, as. having themfelves fatisfied or merited in him, then they are Abfolved or JuftiEed without pardon : For thefa me Ab- folution cannot toto cceio differ in nature from it felf Chrift was declared Jul andAbfolved without pardoning him one fin, as to the undertaken Punifhment: z. They that have either perfedlyobeyed, or fatisfied,muff be Juftifiedor Abfolved without pardon ( being capable of none, as not needing it ) and that in the molt rigid Juftice. If there- obeyed or fatisfied in Chrift we , without pardon, in ftriaeft Ju- fore we have either perfe muff be Abfolved or Jufti The ftrideft Jufticecan require no more then all that is due.Nor candeny an Acquittance or Juftification tohim that hath paid or performed all that was due. 06j.
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