(385:) Chrift, uor IohnTaptift ; nor the Apoftles preached Gorpel or free Grace ; for they thus preached and propounded pardon of fin and falvation upon fuch terms from the firli to the last. And pag. 64. Davidand Teter did both of them again make up that breh that they had made by their fins between God and them, anddid make their peace again with God,by their Re-. pentance. If you will not believe me herein , you may believe David himfelf, if you lo pleafe, Tfal. 32.5. z. Chrift is the. only Peace-maker, who by the blood of his Crofs hathmade Peace, cc. And yet in that Peace fo purcha- fed, without Faith, Repentance,and newObedience, can no man have any part. So in anfwer to Caiimplh, pag. 19. he proves that God lov- eth us for his own Graces in us, and our exercifes of the fame : And inhis fbAddoWs withoutfabgance, pag. 46, 47. he thews that Repentance and Obedience are Conditions nccelfarily to be per- formed by all .thofe that expect Life, or Pardonof fin and fal- vation by Chrift:but have not a receiving nature and relation to Chrin as Faith bath (all which Ieafily acknowledge.) See alfo, ibid. pag. 36. 27. R. John Ball, a man ofa clear and fober Judgement, Y.: and of precious memory in the Churchwith us in his Treat.of the Covenants, pag. 20. faith, E A Ditpofition to good Works is neceffary to Justification, being the Qualification of an active and lively Faith : Good works of all forts are ne- ceffary to our Continuance in thegate ofjuflification,andfo to our final Abfolution, if God give opportunity. But they are not the caufe of, but only a precedent qualification or Condition to final forgivenefs and eternal blifs. If then we fpeak of the Conditions of theCovenant of Grace ; by Condition we underitand what- foever is required on our part,as precedent, concomitant or fub- fequent to J unification; Repentance,Faith, and Obedience are all Conditions. But if by Condition we what is re- quired on our. art as the caufe of the good prornifec, though on- ly rnftrumental Faith, or belief in the Promifes of free mercy is the only Condition. J D d d So Bali.
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