(31o) proved, and would have Healed. May T not then by the warrant of this Text fay on the contrary. [And this is the Juftification, that is, the JuftifyingFaith,that Light is come into the world,and men love this Light better then darknefs , that their deeds may be made manifeft and healedof the evil.] Mark here alfo,that to love the i ight is juftifying Faith. Love to Chrift in Accepting him as Redeemer, is Faith it felt, andnot to be excluded in Ju- flification. To what is here laid, adjoyn the Arguments which I have briefly given Mr. Blake, to prove that to receive Chrift as King andProphet is juftifyingFaith. And as I have faid this much in matter of Faith , fo I might as fully have fbewed that on their Conceflion, by the rule of con- traries, Obedience muff be a Conditionof our continued and fi- -nal Juftication and Salvation. yeld. Georg. co. Thcolog 2,6+,2.65. to. He next Conceffionof our Divines that I fhall mention, 1 is this,they commonly teach,Thatfincere obedience isacon- dition cffalvatton; though fome of them deny it to be a condition .ofjufli'cation.Now they fay in this as much in fenfe as I do,&on that ground T. may well be warranted to fay it is the Conditionof our Juttification at Judgement. For, 1. Juftification at Judge- ment is part of falvation in that ftrider fenfe,as it is ordinari- ly ufed. 2. juilification at judgement is the adjudging mem to falvation : It is to try and Judge who are heirs of falvation and whonot : And therefore undoubtedly the fame thing that is the Condition of their falvation, is the Conditionof their Juftifica tion.lf you holdyour Lands by a Deed of gift, the Judge will by the fame Deed decide the Controverfie for you,and pafs Sen- tence on your fide,when your Right is queftioned. 3. Saving and Condemning are as frequently oppofed in Scripture, or as plain- lyas juftifying and Condemning. 4, Mans works are as ftridly exchicted by Tam! from laving him as from I uffify ing him ( in that ferife, as he take: works in his exclufion ) and laving is as flr',',*(; efenvvi as ie effea of free Grace, as juftifyingis Nor Fy 1-1 dliiit)nor to Chrift that men Juftifie themfelves, r,; . iave Jiernfelves : Chrift will have no partners in his
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