e128) ( fuppofed ) affirmations. Am I credible only when'I fpcak amifs, andnot at all when I fpeak right ? A charitable judge- ment!z. And which fhou'd you take to be indeedmy fenfe? A na- ked term [ Condition I expounded by you that never law my heart ? and therefore know not how I underftand it , further then I tell } ou ; Or rather my exprefs explication of that term in a fenfe contrary to your fuppolition. hear all you that are impartial, and judge ; I fay [ A Condition is no Caufe ] and [ Fazth andRepentance are Conditions. ] My ReverendBrother tells you now, that in wordI deny them to be efficient Caufes, but in deed I make them fuch, viz. I make them to be what I deny them tobe. Judge between us,as you fee caufe. Suppofe I fay that [ Scripture is Sacred] and withall I add that by Sa- cred, 1 mean that which is related to God,as proceeding from him, and feparated to him : and I plead Etymologie, and the Authority of Authors, and Cuftom for my fpecch. If my Re- verend Brother nowwill contradi&me onlyas to the fitnefs of the word, and fay thatfacer fignifieth only execrabilis,l will got be offended withhim, though I will not believe him : but fhotild fogood and wife a man proclaim in print, that facer fignifieth only execrabilis and therefore that though in word I call Scri- pture Sacred, yet in deed I make it execrable, I fhould fay this were unkind dealing. What ! plainly to fay that a Verbal con- troverfie is a heal one , and that contrary tomy frequent pub- lifhed profefons ! What is this but to fay, Whatever hefaiçh,l knotu hm heart to be contrary. Should a man deal fo withyour felf now, he bath fomewhat to fay for it For you firft pro- fefs Repentance andReflitution to be a Condition (as I do) and when you have done,profefs Conditions to have a Moral Effici- ency ( which I deny) : But what's this tome that amnot of your mind ? Treat. pag. 229, A fifth Argument is that which fis much founds in all Books. 1{ good work! be the e ffelt and fruit of our yssflification, then they cannot be Conditions,orCaufa fine qua non of our luflrfication. But, &c. nf w, i . I deny the Minor in the fenfe ofyour,garty ; Our fira
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