(29í) ceived,without the following Homage and Fidelty ? or do the different parts of the conditionmake fuch a difference in the benefit, as you here take the [ Monftrests ?unification j to be ( as you rafhly call it ? ) Another Argument is [ 1f faithbe a total coifs or condi- tion ofproducing the tf ec` of?unification , , then there's no want of obedience for its .af fiance. ] Anfwer I. Faith or obedience are nocaufes of pardon. 2. I will not trouble the Reader to open the (Flame of that Philofophy whichyoumake fuch oílentationof. Only I would remember you, that caufes total in fuogenere, may have others under them. And that it followeth not, that the fun fhinethnot, or the fire heateth not, or that you underftand not, and wrote not thefe words, though I fuppofe you will fay that God is Cars;a totals of all thefe acts : nor yet that God doth ufe his creatures becaufe of an infufficiency in himfelf. 3. Faith taken for- our [be- comingBelievers, Difciples, Chriffians] is the total condition of our firft Receiving Juftification. 2. Faith taken more nar- rowly for our accepting 'Quilts Righteoufnefs, is not the total Condition of our firft Receivingof Juftification. 3. Obe- dience is partof the condition of the continuance of it,and of our fentential Juftification. And whereas you talk over and over of [ Total caufes,and particular caufes. a I tell you again they are no caufes. He adds that then [ Obedience doth nihil agere, or actun agere. ] Anfwer. lecloth niisil efficere. But befdes,[nihil ] and [ faEluro ] there's two things oft mentioned Juftifica- tïon at Judgement, and the non - ami(lionof it here. 3. He infipidly again difputes that L If an e ffeU loth totally proceedfrom any cane, tben it totally depends on it. ] Andwhat then ? Therefore it folely dependeth on it : And if thefe things were true, what are they to our queftion ? But faith he, When good workc,the fruit of faith are interrupted yet our 7uf#ification abides by theEngle inpence of f,.irh only as a total cau/e of its being and confervation. ] Anfwer. t. Alas ! What would fuch Difputants do with the Church, if Gods mercy did not hinder them 1 By your own Argument now, neither God,nor Christ, nor the Gofpel are any caufes of our Juftifi- p p z cation.
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