2S5) bimine is our Saviour, or our Redeemer, in that he is the Savi- our or Redeemer of the IA orld : And bath paid a fufficient price for their Kr, nfom , and is offered to them and life with him. The De&when they come to know that they are Elea, may fay , He was 'our Saviour and Redeemer in a fpecial manner, as abfolutely intending our infallible Juftification and Salvation.. But they can never f.y till they do believe, (lraft u ours in Covenant, or he is our Head, or Husband, yea or that they have any true Right to him: or in him, more then the reft of the world have. Though he were fpecially given for them, he is no more given To thern,before they believe, then to other men. For the Minor (that we have not Abfolution,Pardon or Right to heaven, before we have Chrift,by true Donation,or Covenant- Right). I take it to be fo much proved already , fo exceeding evi- dent in many more Texts of Scripture and fo generally main- tained by all the Orthodox that it kerns but lofs of time to prove it. Q.-Trguntent 19. If we had been pardoned, Abfolved, or jufli- fied, and had Right to heaven from eternity, or before we were born, then would Paul or f me of the Apoftles have made ufe of this as an Argument againft uflification by the works of the Law, or at leaft, not have pleaded againft it, only Juitification by Faith, which implyes that we were not before J uflified, or Abfol- ved : But neiether 'Paul nor any Of the Apales did ever make ufe of fuch an Argument againft Jultification by the Works of theLaw ; but contrarily plead only Jufli ',cation by Faith there- fore. &c. How eafily might Paul have filenced atl pre.:erices ofthe works of the Law to luilification,by proving that we were juitifiecl be- fore there was Lawor man or at leaft before we were born and capable of working ? Can he that is not, work to jollification ? fure if thi; had been the way, we fl ould have found the Apoftle, ililead of laying, We are fullified by Faith, andnot bi the Wo,kc of the Law, to have - .pleaded thus againft both We were .11,g fied fore we Were born, and therefore nether by Faith no ir0"kS : th.efe do but procure the fenfe of at toour confciences a and fo both Faith and Workr nmy do. Argument 20. Mgt Doa.rine is riot of God, which over- .throweth theEliro'sly PriefIlv and Prophetical office of Chritt., at o 3
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