( 299) fore We are conffi M tuted, pardoned !inners, purely by Chrigse.; . rits, and not any thingof our own ; fo we are conftituted evan- gelically, Inherently righteous, as being performers of the new Covenants Conditions of our Intereft in Chrift and Pardon, Initially (but actually) on our firft believing, and Progreflively,as we bring forth the fruits of that Faith. And as at judgement we limit be pronounced Pardoned finners , and therefore not to be condemned meerly as finners, (which termI oppofe to the fpecial excepted fins of final Infidelity and Impenitency, or Rebellion -) and this for the fake of Chrifts blood alone : So we Mall be pro- nounced Believers, and fincereObeyers becaufe we were fo ita- deed , and acquit from all falfe accufations ofnon- performance of the Gofpel Condition, becaufe we did perform it,and therefore are righteous in that caufe, againft that accufation. 2. mHe fecond common affertion is this That u every an ml have a particular righteoufnefs,andfoa righteous caufe in judgement;fo every nun may bePaid moft truly and properly to be jallified in judgement by a particular ire;fication(if needbe) by that fame-oho. righteournejs orjitfinels of hss cane. No man ever de- rived but that the: Divelhimfelf may be faifly accufed : and fo may any wicked man : I donot fay, that it is any of the bufinefs of that day tovindicate them from fuch accufations: It is another work that will be then in hand. But youmay fee that they are fo far Juftifiable as they are lull ! If one accufeme of killing a man in India that I never heard of, may I not be juftified before . God, or man from that charge, by my innocency or righteouf- nefs ? Nodoubt of it. If therefore we be accufed at judgement of not performing the Conditions of the Lawof -Grace, and fo of having nopart inChrifts Merits , we mutt be juftified by our Faith , Repentance and Obedience, as that matter or righteouf- nefs of our caufe, and fo of our perfons. If any dream that there will be no ufe at judgement of any fuch Juftification. i. Yet they concede that fuch we mayhave,if it-were ufeful. z. I am far from their opinion, feeing, I. It is the Law of Grace that we !hall be judgedby ; and therefore our Abfolution or Condemnation mutt be upon its Conditions. The Law is the Rule of Judgement. 0,q i 3. What Antoniunt Fay= in Ro- man. 4 3Pag 223. Et G.sohinum Exegef. con. Auguf2. Art. 4. pag. 942.
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