( 39z ) the party forfeits all hisRight, and difobligeth the other party. Of the former fort is Faith ; Of the latter is fincere obedience ; As the example of Chamier illuftrateth it : ( For I will not com- pare one to the contract for houfe or Land, and the other to the rent or homage, left men findwords to feed their contentious hu- mours.) Or iiippofe a Prince give a Traytor a Pardon on Con- dition that he thankfully accept it, and alto once a year come to him,and fay, I thank you, and turn not Rebel again.; (thoughbe may pofsibly commit leffer offences) in this cafe all is free yet Conditional. Thankful acceptance is theCondition of the firft Right : Annual acknowledgment and non.Rebelling of the continuance : juft fo (as neer as I can conceive) it is in our cafe: Faithwith Repentance being the Conditions of our firft Right and Poffefsion : After Obedience and Gratiude ( with the con- tinuance of the laid Faith and Repentance) being Conditions of the continuance or not lofing our luftification. Only here obferve in Charnieri words, i. That though the fenfe be very found, yetthe term of Confequent Conditions is lefs convenient ; becaufe it is taken from its refpect to the firft Right, and not to the form with its own proper effect : i. e. It is by him called a Confequent condition becaufe it followeth our Right to,and Poffefsion of the beneEt,which Faith goeth before: But indeed it is an Antecedent Condition ofits own proper con.. fequent (as all Conditions are) ; that is, of the continuance of that Right. And I exprefs the fame thing in other terms, viz.. One is the Condition of our being firft Juftified and having Right to Life : the other of the continuance or not lofing it. 2. Note that Chamier having plainly laid down the truth, for fear offeeming to countenance the Doctrineof the Saints Apo, ftacy applyeth it to the feeming Right of the commonly cal- led. But that Caution was needlefs , feeing the Law may threa- ten the juftified themfelves,that if they draw back, God will have no pleafure in them ; and yet God may decree to preferve them from drawing back, yea by means of fuch threatnings to preferve them, 3 1. Deodate
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