without the firit ) nor be juftifiedor faved at the Taft day? that whichdoth removere rrohibew,remove impediments,canbe no lefs then as caufa fine qua non, if that impediment mutt be removed, and mutt by that means be removed. But this impediment (re- futing Chrifts Reign, and difobeying him in abfolutely neceffary things ) mutt be removed, and chat by the contraries therefore acceptingChrift to reign over us,and fincerelyobeyinghirn,can be no lefs then a cntf(a fine qua )1. And this being from the force of Divine Ordination in the Law ofGrace,that tubjedion and obe- dience are made to neceflary a means to that end,and that Rebel- lion and Difobedience is made to deftruetive,it mutt needs be that they have property the nature ofa condition : He that hath faid He that believeth 'hall be faved, and he that believeth not fhall be damned : cloth gve us to underitand, that it is the fame believ- ing whofe pretence bath the promife ofSalvation, and whofe ab- fence hath the thre.., ming ofDamnation: Look what unbelief it is that is meant in the threatning, it is the contrary faith that is meant in the promife. But it is the not acceptingChrift as King, that is part of the unbeliefthat condemneth:therefore it is the ac- ceptinghim as King that is the beliefthat faveth ( tuppofing the otherparts. )And left any fhould fay,favingand ;unifying is not all one(ofwhich more anon) Chrift doth fayas much ofjuftification it felf. For ;unification is confeffed to be oppofed to condemna. tion, by thofe that I fpeak to : And Chrift faith, lob. 3. 18. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believethnot U condemned already. Not to be condemned, is beyond all doubt to be Abfolved, or juftified ( and not a meer Negationof con- demnation, as a ftone hath : ) Now it is here evident that ;unifi- cation and condemnation are oppofed as the effeas or confe- quents and believing and not believing are oppofed as thecon- ditions and Antecedents. Now it being a not believing that con- demneth, it is pail doubt, that it is a not believing to ?unification, or a Privation ofthe fame faith that juttifieth : Elfe were the equi- vocation fo great,as to leave the words not intelligible : fo that if we can but find out thenature of one branch, we may undoubt- edly know the other : Know but what is the condemningunbe- lief, and you may eafily know what is the ;unifying faith. Now the former is moft exprefly toldus by the Judge himfelf, Lut 9. 27. beforecited. The fentence ofCondemnation is pail on theme Rrz for
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