Baxter - Houston-Packer Collection BT763 .B35 1655

( 448) 'Muth. Plar. I z. iLliricats himfelf(the Father ofthe rhiccialcs that raifediuch Mariam 1 tumults againft Melannhon and others in the point ofgood Works) doth make a twofold 3ar of Gods jut-,igement : one of ttrid Iuftice , thevthei of Grace. Accordingly he afferteth a twofold luftification At the Bar of 1h-id luitice we are juitifi- ed only by Remifsion of fin, on the imputationof il,hrifts righte- oufnefs received by faith : At the Bar of grace we are luftified and Accepted in refped to our newObedience. It is a Iuftifica- tion of New Obedience, and a Rewardingof it, by a Re- conciledFather at the Bar ofGoce,] See - v. Scrfp'or. t ran. 6 de Varia 0pertins pradicat. pag, 562 563., 564, 565. end how much is this leis then that which i affirmofa twofold Righteouf- nefs, and Iuftification ? Cafp. F"f I 1101Rochmend ( another addifted to the extream in this Brochmond, I) point ) though he fpeaksagainft Works Iuftifying be- fore God in general, yet when becomes to particulars , he gives more to them then I have done. On pam. 5. t 5 he mentions two effdts of Prayer : whereof the &ft is to fave the lick : which though God do as the Principal Caufe , yet Prayer as a means to excite or awakeGod; The fecond effect of Prayer is the for! givenefs of fin, which is thecaufe of ficknefsel I never faid that pardon was an effect of any Aft of ours. So on verf. 1 7,18. [Let us be continual in Prayers moved by their efficacy, which indeed is admirable, as appears not only by the example of 81i&, but, &c. And which is the greateft of all, fo great is the force and vertue of Prayer, that it cannot on- ly Appeafe Godhimfelf when he is kindled to anger, but even overcome him. ] And on verf.19, o. he faith that he that by Preaching Repentance converteth a firmer, del-loth that his fin s be covered, pardoned and not imputed. And on c.z. feet. 21. he confuteth Pifcator and Parxess and all that by work! underftand Iames tomean a ttork7ng Faith. I . Be- caufe he thinks it contradideth Paul, and takes not down Works futfic lady

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