C3 35) 0 2. And it Intepretetb all Scriptures ( that fpeskofa Judi- fication in this life) of a lira nge feigned Juftification, which for ought I find bath no ground in Scripture at all ; and is wholly aliene to our condition ; ai>d at leaft utterly un- known to us, ifnot known to be untrue. What doth it con- cern a inner to be juftiñed or condemned now before a Court of Angels, wherehe is not prefent,nor knows any thing of it ? nor do we know what Angels have to do in fuch a bufinefs. And what Tranfient Act is it that God then and there l,urs forth or performech ? Can you tell ? or doth Scripture >eü you ? God fpeaketh not to Angels by voyce. Ifyou think(as the Schoolmen, tome) that they fee our Juflification, as other things in the face of God ; then it is no l rantient Alt. Elfe why maynot they fee it in it fell ? And then either our Juftifi- cation is GodsEffence,and they fee it in him as his Eternal Be- ing, or elfe Cod mull be mutable, as having fomething to be feen in him denova, which was not in him fromEternity. If you fay that thisTranfient A& is Gods illuminating the An- gelical underftanding to know us to be justified ; then this fup- pofeth that we are justified already by fome former A& (which canbe nothing that I know but the moral Act of hisLawes a ) For their knowingus tobe justified is not a juftifyingus , but prefuppofethus to bewhat they know us to be. I can think ofnothing elfe that you can fay, except this that Chrift as man may Vocally (orby fomeequivalent Tranfient Act) pro- nounceus Jutlificd, as he will do at Judgement. But i. this is without Scripture. 2. and it is God that juftil'ieth. 3. And then how were all the faithful justified before Chrifts Incarnation and Afcenfion ? Or doyou thinknone were juftified before But I will return toyourExceptions. You fay, [ Thisk but Virtual ?uflificationl which is inLaw Title. Anfiv.1. It is e4t ual Con(litutive 7tipipcation,and not Virtudonly. z.But it is indeed but Virtual feneential juftifica- tion. But yet it is ofthe higheft kind of Virtuality. It is that which makes usrtelot in curia,(which I take tobe the na- ture of our Juftification in this life.)And takendivifsm,it feem ethmore excellent infome refpeet, then the fentence or decla ration it feif ; for he that byPurchafe first, and Pardon (writ- ten .
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