(l92) cutior. For you fay Faith ia a Totalcarife, and there can be but oneTotal Caufe, unlefs you Lofe the honor of your Phi- iofophyo 2. Faith is no proper caufe at all. 3. Did you not fee what muff needs be anfwered you, That Faith is in- terrupted as well as Obedience,and yet no intercifion of our Jufti ication. Whenwe Geep we donot', at leaft alway)act faith no more then obedience (if fomuch.) And the habit of both continueth together fleeping and waking : And ifyou fhould give over love and-ûncerity ofobedience, you would ceafe to be ¡uftified. His lati Argument is, [ Becaatfe forlint after Converfion, lie muff have recourfe only byfaith to C;hriff, as our Advocate. ] Anfwer. z. That fpeaks only of renewed pardon for parti- cular fins, but not of our JuEtificationat Judgement, nor the non-omiffion here. 2. We muff have recourfe toChrift with Repentance, and efteem, and fe fdenial, and defire, e -c. as well as that aßì of faith which you plead for, as the total cattle. And when you would fee Zanchya ainft Zanchy, you do but rnif underhandhim. He faith truly with Paul, that neither inwhole or part are our own works ( fach as Paul fpeaks of) ourRighteoufnefs, that is, to anfwer theLaw as Paul menti- oneth,or any way to merit or fatisfie, or (land in co-ordina- tion withChrift, But Zanchy never thought that Repentance and Faith in Chrift asHead,and Lord, and Delire, and Gra. ritude , &c. might be no means or Conditions of any fort ofJuftification, or of that which we affert them to be means of. I would anfwer much moreof this Difputation ; but I am perfwaded the judicious Reader will think I have done him wrong, in troubling himwith this much. See pig. 298, 299,. . howhe anfwereth the Obje&ion, that pardon is promifed to Repentance, &c. I will not difparage the Readers under- ftanding fo muchas to offer hint a Confutation of that, and much more of the Book. Only his many Arguments on the meftionof mytfirft Dfputation, I muff crave your Pati- encc while I eiimine briefly, and I will tire you with no
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