(375) tiveJuftification or pardon,nor ofour right to the Kingdom; But it is the reafon ofthe fentence,and to we maybe faid fo beJuttified becaufe we are jutt,fo far as we areMft: The reafon or caufe of the fentence,and the thing fentenced being not the fame. And as much do theygenerally fay: N ay,it is as much as to fay,we are properly juthfied by works in J udgement, and it is a fit and ufual fenfe:For what more proper fenfe of the word Jflifying, then this ? when the thing is the very reafon and caufe of the fentence, And no doubt the reafonwhy any man is judged juft, is becaufe he is jult. And therefore his righteoulnefs, fo far as he Bath it, is the reafon of his juilification. And therefore whe:4 we muft be Judged, whether we have performed the conditions of the pardoning Covenant , Our perfonal performance mutt be the Righteouf nefs which muft be die reafon ofour ; unification And thus, ( if partiality blind me not , I have (hewed with fuf ficient evidence to them that will fee that I give no more to works in the points that 3 am blamed for, then the generality of Prate& ants do give ; Yea then many ofthemfelves that contradid me Only I attempted to explicate the nature and reafon hereof, I thought, in a Method more plain and fatisfaefory : wherein if I came fhort ofmy ends,I hoped it might be pardoned as loft labor, rather then reproached as erroneous. I fhall now proceed to particular Teftimonies defiring the Lord to forgive the fin in them and me that put me and the Reader to this laborious lois oftime. Sf2, SECT.
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