(318) Chr yet it is of(itch ?fertility t o ail _igniters that none may expel pardon without it. And in both Catechifins having (hewed that every fin deferves Gods wrath and curie feft. What doth God require of us that we may efcape his wrath and Curfe due to us for fin ? :...Arf.r. To efcape the wrath and curfe of God due to us for fin, God requirethof us faith in J efus Chrift, Re- pentance unto life, with the diligent ufe ofall the outward means whereby God communicated.] to us the benefits of Redemp- tion.] That which I conclude hence,is, ] That laving faith confifieth not in any one single act. 2. That faving faith being the recei- ving ofChrift as offered, mutt needs be the receiving him as Lord, or King and Prophet : And I fhall take Saving-faith, and Jufti- fying-faith, for all one, till I fee more proof of the contrary then yet I have done : Efpecially while I think, that to juftifie con- ftitutively in right, is togive right to Impunity and Salvation ; and to juftifie fententially, is to fentence us to Salvation, and not to Damnation. 3. That-Repentance is a means fine qua non to pardonof fin. 4. That Repentance and diligent u le ofall Gods outward means , &c. are neceffary!means required of us to our efcape of Gods wrath and curfe due to us for fin:which is,if I un- derftand it, to obtain pardon offin : For Dr.e.../met faith, 4'Iedul. pag. 1. cap. t 2. §. 3. The Papifts diftinaion into Remiflion of the fault, and of the punifhment, is a diftinaion without a diffe- rence, 4. Davenaot. D ilvenant (that light ofDort, Cambridge, England) expref- feth himfelf concerning the intereft ofworks in juftificati . on in the fame phrafe and fenfe ( as far as I can underftand him ) as do : I therefore recite his words, not as a bare Tefhmony, but as an Explicationof my own meaning, as fully as I can tell how to explain it. And ifany will make a difference, let them on the fame grounds fet me at odds with my felt'. For ( dohereby fubfcribe to thefe words ofhis as heartily as to anyofmy own.
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