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The
Preface
pers
that
I
feat
to
him
(
upon
his
importunity)
printed
without
my
confent, (which
if
God
will,
I
(hallyet
'vindi-
cate.)
Andtherefore feeing
that
it
is
his
way,
I
thought
he
might
do
the
like
by
other
Papers
,
which
formerly
i
had
wrote to
him
on
this
fubjelt
of
lohification.
vind
therefore
thinking
it
fitter
that
I
fhoold
publifly
them (
of
the
tivo)
then
he,(i
have
laved
him
the charge
ofprinting
them,
and
annexed
them
to
thefe.
The
fourth Difputation
was added,becaufe
it
is
the
ve-
ry
heart
of
our
controverfie,
which ntofi
of
our
DifPotes
about the
infirumentall
Caufalsty
of Faith
u
to
luflifl-
cation,
and
the
other Concomitant
,arc
refolved into.
That
the
Reader
may
underhand
there
DO:stations
the better,
I
_pall here
at
the
entrance
/hew
him
the
face
of
the
way
that
I
maintain,
and
alp
of
the
way
that
I
op-,
pole.
The
way
that
I
plead
for
is
contained
in
theje Propefi-
tions. 1.
Man
having
broken the
Law
of
Nature
or
works,
is
loll,
and
difabled
to
his
own
Recovery,or
to
do
any
works
by
which
that
Law
will ever juflifie
bins,
2.1efus
Chrifl
bath
Redeemed
him
from
this
loft
con-
dition,by
his
Incarnation, Life,Death,Refurreclion,&c.
fulfilling
the Lint'
by
his obedience,
and
Hering
for
our
not fulfilling
it,
and
thereby
fatisfying
the
Lawgiver
,
and
attaining
the
ends
of
the
Lan'
,and
more:
making him-
filf
an
example
to
us
of
hdinefs,
and
becoming
our
Tea-
cher,
High Priell
and
King,
to
lave
us
from
all fin
and
enemies,
and
recover
us to God,
for
our
Salvation,and
his
Glory
and
Pleafure.
3.
The offices
and
Works
of
Chrifi,
are
for
other ends
an
well
as
for
our
jollification;
even
for
our
Stlaifick:
ion,
Glorification,
&c.
46The
Believer
ought not to confound
the offices,works,..-
or