(ß'6L) and me-: f. If ypu :intend to-publif,h a Confutation when I am dead, and deny me any help for conviction while I live. 3.The Churchwill lofe die fruit of my own Recantation.2.And your kif, one:part of the fruit of your Labor. 3. And I may dye inerrorunrecanted, andyou(bh g nowtimportuned fordyour help ) be guilty .of.it. Ifyou did but kiiow howgladly I would publiquely recant, youwould not deny your Heap. You that would 'have fo -importuned me todeiiberate,if yciu had known before; I .hope will nor deny your afliftance for my recovery. I did not>haíiily that -I did. But though I wanted the oppor- tunity of confulting you before, yetI hope iris not too late. amconfident if youknow me,you are;not,fo uncharitable as to think me uncutable. It is therefore your feat dutynot to fuller fin upon me, Let me therefore intreat you to fend me one or two of your ftrongeft Arguments againft force of the weightyeft points in difference; and to anfwer mine. I know it is not an,hour.workwith you to do that much ; and I would beftow twenty for you. If you fufpe& that I will any way mif- imployyour papers, you fhall prefcribe me the Law therein your felf. Whether you will read YuvaTavias or xyívo ,provfas, I am indifferent, beingno friend to either. I thought it a greater novelty to fay, Faith jufifieth onlyor primarily as an Infrtement, then tofay, it jupifieth as the Condition, which the free laWgiver katit.promife47uß fcation upon. I knew it was no novelty to*, we mutt have a perfonal Righteoufnefs be- fides that imputed s And I took it to be as old as the Gofpel, to fay, that thisconfifteth in Faith and fincere Obedience. I called it Evangelical, becaufe I trembled to think of havingan inherent Righteoufnefs which theLaw of works will fodeno- minate. What you fay of the [ Efficacy of Obedience and Faith ] I difclaim both, as never coming into my thoughts: Ïacknowledge no efficiency as to layIijr'cotion in either,but a bare .conditionality. I aver confidently that _i,give no more to works., thenourDivines ordinarily do, viz.. tobe a. fecondary part of the Condition of the new Covtráont, and fo of Jufifc4- °tion,-as 'continued-aridco if:m:4wate, aaràd' of.glorification only if Derr, it is in giving lefs toFaith, denying it to be the In/irurnen- it/ Caufe of' but only a condition. My Defini- tion
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