(144) not in what fenfe,but left you fhould not difcern my fenfe, who defire to fpeak as plain as I can, that you may truly fee where- in wediffer And that I allo may fee it when you have as clearly opened your meaningofyour term,[ alificationt,] And for your Qleflion [ Whether agodly man can think the Righteoufncfs ofCh5 ir/1 made kis by working, or only beliezing. 1 Ianfwer, caufally and efficiently by neither, I think, ( though you think otherwife ) ; I dare not fo advance faith , and fo advance man. I remember good, old learned , folid Gata- ker; words to Sa'tmalh(pag.53,) It isyourfelfrather thin any of us that tripat this ffone, when you tl-ouldhave faith fo muchpref- fed in the `Doctrine offalvation, in regardof the glorioufnefs and emin.ency of the grace it (elf ; vrhich to alert, is notfound: (fic in Animadv.in Lucium part. 1. g . 9. v. 7.) The righteoufnefs of Chrift is made ours by Gods free girt ; but faith and true fub- jection are conditions of our participation ; and what intereft each bath in the conditionality, and on what grounds, I have Chewed. 1 fear you give too much to faith and man. You ask [Is it repent,and Chri righteoufnefr by this is made yours?] Anft'oer, It is oftimes,Repenalandbe , forgiven ; and re- pent and be baptized ; and repent and believe, and be forgiven : but not efficiently by repenting nor believing : but on condition of both : though in ordaining them conditions God might intend one but as preparative or fubfervient to the other ; and not on equal terms, or to equal ufe immediately. Andwhen you fay, [that the dying Chriflian is directed to the Refiring on Chrifi, and eying the brazen Serpent, not to befound in any thing but a righteoufnefs e y faith,] I never durft entertain any doubt of this ; it is no queftion between us : only in what fenfe it is, called a Righteoufnefs by faith, I have (hewed even in oppofition to Works in Paul; fenfe, which make the re- ward to be ofdebt and not of Gract, Rom: q. 4. where you fay [ It iran AR of Dependance not ofObedience that interefls us in Chrif1s Righteoufnefr ] I anfwer, It is no one Aft but many ; It is an act of /lent firft ( and thence the whole bath the name of faith it being fo hard a thing to believe fupernatnral things as it would have been to us to be- lieve Chrift to have been God when we had Seen him in the Shape
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