(294) my reciting thefe Teftimonies, is to be a Pill to Prejudice, and open mens ears to Scripture-proof. It is not a few, nor only the unlearned and ungodly who are mattered by prejudice in thefe difputable things. Were not the Power of prejudice wonderful, we Ihould not fee the Divinesof one Nation all Lutherans , as Denmark, Stteden,Saxonie, &c. and of another all Calvinifts, as they are called ; andof fo many all Papifts : and none or fo few todepart from the way in Credit where they live. I confers I find in experience, that it doth more with molt objeClors, to cite the plain words of a Divine in Credit, thenofPeter or Paul : When I mention what Chrift faith, they make a puff at it, and fay, That is your .Expofition ? but Whatfay fuck andfilch Divines ? As if Scriptures and humane Authority were of the fame account in Englandas in Italie I I fpeaknot this of all ; but of too many : Nor do I fpeak it to accufe them, but as the neceffary reafon of my following task, which they who knownot our common cafe, may judge fuperfluous and vain. The opinions which are excepted againft in me,are thofe which are fuppofed to afcribe too much toman and his Aetions in the matter of Juftification. Which are efpecially thefe follow- ing. i. That we are juftified by believing the truth of the Gape!, and accepting Chrift as offered therein, that is, as an entire Savi- our , to rave us from fin it felt, as well as from guilt and punifh- ment, and as a King to Rule us: and fo that fubjeciing the foul to Chrift by Content to his Kingdom, is an Ati of Faith where- by we are juttihed, as well as refting on him for Juftification or apprehending or accepting pardon and righteoufuels. And that it is utterly void of Scripture-warrant to fay, that It is only the Accepting of Chrifts facrifice, or Imputed Righteoufnefs which is the juftifying AC1 : or elfe, only the refting upon it for Juttiti- cation. Or that though fides qua Iulhficat, Recepit Cbriliumut Regem, Faith which Juftifieth, taketh Chrift for Lord ; yet ua Juflificat, as it juftifieth, it taketh him only to Juftification. The ground of my opinion here is migked which is this. 2. Faithclothnot 7uflifie qua fides, or qua hxc fides, as this Faith, that is, as it is an apprehending or accepting of Chrifis righteoufnef.i, nor is our Right to each particular Be;;efit of Chrill particularized andconflitUted by the partitWar objefl apprehended by. Faith , as Impreffions
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