or conditionally, is the true and proper Inftrument of that Effect, and not only [ the prefenting or promifing away thereto The proper Efea er Product of every Law, is Debitamdi- quad ; Et de hoc debitodeterminare is its proper Aet. Now therefore this Promife being part of Chrifls Law, dothdeter- mine of and co on us , the Debitum, or Right to fententi- al Juftification,ng firagiven us an Intereff in Chrift, and fo to-the Benefit of his fatisfaction ; and this is 7uftificatio conflituriva. YOU know a Deed of Gift( though but cone ditiorial) is a molt proper Inftrument of conferring theBene- fits therein contained. And is not the Promife undoubtedly Gods Deed of Gift ? And doth he not thereby make over, as it were under his hand, the Lord Jefus,'and all his Benefits to them that will receivehim? So that whenyou fay, that [ his Promife to juttingupon condition, is not ;uftifying ] You may fee it is otherwife by all the forementioned confiderations of the nature of the Promife. You mayas well fay, a Teftáment,, or deedof Gift conditional, dodo not give, or a Lays loth not confer Right an Title. And in thefe Relative benefits, to give Right to the thing, and to give the thing it felt, orright in it, is all one : (, fill allowing the diflance of time limited for both in the Inftrument ) It is all one to give full right to fon-#hip, and to makeone a Son or at leaf they are infepa- rable. Yea, ( whichweighethm'oft of all with me) it being the proper workof Gods Laws togive Dunefs of, or Right to Teeftrr, it cannot be any other way accomplifhed that is withinour Knowledge' (I think) For Decree, Purpofe, and fo Predeftinationcannot do it, they being' Determinations 1de event" ,, and not de debito, as fuch : And the fentential decla- ration prefuppofeth this Debitum, or true Righteotefnefs, an therefore dothnot give it... No wonder therefore while you deny. this Legal, Teftamentary, Moral Donation, that you are forced alto to deny 7uftrfication conftitutive; (but very inconveniently andunfafely.) By what way doth God give'a father Authority over his Childeen, and a Husband over his Wife, and a Magiftrate-over the people, and a Minifter over the Churchor Flock but only by this Moral, Legal A6tion ? .tad even fo doth he give Power to them that receive him to uu 3 - beconae
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