C341) Righteotte,Nationt Aid/ cnrfe him ; people /hall boor him: Pro 24.24. He that ju(lifieth the Wicked , and he that condemnetb the 70f1oven they bothare abomination to theLird,Prov.17.15. Ifthiswere not fo,then we muff believe that nomanis juftified before the day of( particular or general) Judgement, till you have proved that God fentenceth at a Court ofAngels. And that the Giving of Faith doth not make Righteous ( that is, according to the Lawofworks) eficraiiie, I thinkyou confefs. IfI thought youdid not, it were very eafily proved Faith being but. the condition ofour univerfal righteoufnefs (which the old Law-requireth in its ftead)cannot be that Righ- teoufnefs it fell : and fome other efficient there muff be of our Juftificationhere, Next you fay [ NotWithflandingChrifis Deathand the Con- ditional Covenant aforefaith, a perfon is only juflifyable Con- dit iónaiù nihilponit effe.1 Anfiv. All this is very true : but not any thingagainft me> I like well what you fay of Chrifts death, becaufe it is(as Aquinas and our Davenant,7Jfher,&c.fay,) but caufauniverfalis, vil Remedium omnibus applicabile. It is to prepare for andmerit, & not direflly to effeF,l our Juftification, (whatfoever the Antinomians dream:) But the Covenant or Teftamentis the veryefficient Inftrumental caufe of Juftifica- tion : and its A&ion is GodsAftion. Yet its true, that Condi- tionalit ni`itponit in e f e: that is, till the condition be perform- ed : but then it becometh of equal force to an AbfoluteGift and doth ponerein effe:even the tame Inffrument doth ir,whofe Anion till then was.( by the Authors will) fufpended. you next pats to another Point (about Thef.59.) whecher Juftification be a continued An. And you fay that E. be., ing a Tranfient Aft it cannot be well called a continued Act, Which imports a facet,Ifive motion between the Terminusa quo and ad quern, whereas this Aft, whether by fentence or Cove- nant, is not fuch amotion,&c.] Anfi'. r. All this may be true of a proper natural Anion : but you know that it is only a moral Action which I affirm to becontinued ; and of thisyou know your Rule de moue holds not except you take Mouse Xx 3 largely.;
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