( 93) 3 I 1NEodate erinnotat. in ram 2. 24. Seeing that it is Deodst the fame Spirit that bath fpoken by St. Paul and St. lames , and St. 'Paul attributes Abrabanot luftification and all Believers to Faith without Works : We muff of necefsity diffin- guifh the meaning of this word juilified which is ufed .by St. PAH/ for abfolving a man as he is in his natural fate-bound to theLaw, and fubjea to damnation for his fin ; which God doth by a rigid a&of Iuftice, that requireth full fatisfaction, which teeing he could not get ofmo,he bath received at Chrifts hands (who was the furety) imputed to man by Gods Grace,and apprehended by a lively faith. Whereas St. Janes takes the fame word for the approving a man in a benign and fatherly judgement,as he is confidered in the qualityof Gods child , and living inthe Covenant ofgrace,as having the two effentirel peas of that Covenant, joyned together : Faith to receive Gods grace,and Chriftsbenefits, and works toyield him the duties of fervice and acknowledgment. And this juftification is not oppofite to the condemnati©n of a /inner ingeneral, but to the particular one of an hypocrite, who rending afunder thefe two infeparable parts, fheweth that he hath neither one nor the other. Idol; in (.91/lath. 25. ;2. [In this judgement of Gods Church; the groundof the condemnation ofHypocrites, is the default of Good Works, becaufe that thereby is fhewen the falfity of their Faith and profefsion : and contrariwife the practife of them is the true proof of a lively Faith, and the accomplifhment of the dutiesof the Evangelical Covenant on the Believers behalf, and the beginning of the fpiritual life which (hall never be perfected inheaven, unlefs it be begun in this world; See ofthis judgement, pfai. 50 4,.E.zek, 3 4. x 7.Heb. 10. 30. Tam. 2. 24.] 32. I EarnedDoctor Field in his Appendix to the third book I of the Church citeth many of the molt learnrd Pa- Dr. Pit)Cl pals,as approving their Doftrine concerning luffification(though he mica the Papifts on the other fide) : and in fpecial thofe that plead ?or a twofold Righteoufnefs ( imputed and inherent) and a twofold prefentation of Chrifts Righteoufnefs and Merits to E e e the
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