( 312) ed, and by thy Words, thos, limit be condemned. It is a hard cafe amongChriftians and Divines,tha.t thefe plain truths should meet with fo much oppofition The fecond Objection is, that Obedience is, indeed a Conditi- on of falvation, but not of Right to falvation : for they 4e forced, to, confefs that to juflifie,is, to give Right to Impunity,and fo, to flvation ; and fo it is all one thing : and therefore ifworks, be the Conditionof or Right to falvationt then alfo of our Ju. ftification.) Reply. 1. l Rill confefs that our firft Right to falvation is be- Sore external works , ( but not before Repentance and Love to Chritl.)l3ut it is our adjuclged,confurnmate,and continued Right, that the Queition Both concern. And t. hear our Teacher, Rev. 22. 14. Blefed are they that do his Conmancimeno, that they may have Right to the Tree of Life, ind mayenter in by the Gate insoaisfi City. z. It is a miftake of the very nature of a Condition, which caufeth this Objeftion. The Condition is Pronfifflonis velTefla- rnentiConditio : The Condition of Gods Grant, or Chrifis Te- ilament And the Promife or teltament, is to convey Right, and not natural beings directly : and therefore the condition is ever a Condition of the Right conveyedby the Promife. A natur ral Qualification,. vulgarly called a natural Condition, may be faid to be the Condition of the thing in its Phyfical being,(as the drynefs of Wood and its proximity to the fireis of its burning.) But a Civil,Moral,Legal Condition,is ever a,Cnndition ofRight; it being Right that Laws and Promifes doconvey.fle that call for proofof this, will not much honour his nnderftandingby the de. mand : Efpecially in refpeet to our prefent-cafe, r. Nother common Affertion , equipolent tn. what they blamein me,is this, That Faith jufisfieth Perfon be. fore god, 'and work!' Inftifie the Faith, This is in fence as much asI give to Works herein. For to ju- ftifie the Faith of the perfon, is to juftifie the perfon fo far, when his Faith is queftioned. If his Faith be not quell:4)mA (adually or virtually) and there be noufe for J ufiifying it, then not his worksJuili6e it at all If there be ufe for filch a Juftification of
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