(34z). laxgely and improperly. As paffive Juftification, or the effe& of the Juftifying A& is but a Relation, which is theweakeft of Entities; fo doth itper nudam refultantiam arife,which is by the weakeft ofCaufalities ; The Act ofGoc givingout and ena&- ing this Law or Covenant at firft,was indeed a proper tranfient Act, and isceafed : but the moral Action of the Law thusena- &ed is continual. The Law of the land , which condemneth Delinquents, and juttifieth the obedient, doth both by a conti- nued moral A&. The Leafe of your Houle or Lands gives you Title thereto by a continued moral A&.So that this which I alert, is not Aaus repetittu vel renovator. You add that [You incline to think that there is but one 7u- flificationof `Perfon in this life, though frequent Rerniffion of fin.j Anjug. In that you judge as molt of the Orthodox do : And I have faid nothing to the contrary. I think alfo, that as Scripture ufeth the phrafe of oft-forgiving , but feldom of oft-- juftifying, fo it is fafeft to fpeak as Scripture doth. Yet as to the thing, me thinks, that as Remiffion and Juif fication do but refpe&ively or very narrowlydiffer ; fo in this cafe, one may as trulybe Paid to be repeated, as theother : that is, As there is an univerfal Remitlionofall fin paft, upon our firft trueBe- trying ; which univerfal Remiflion is never iterated, but con- tinued : fois there anUniverfal Juftification of the per fon at the fame time, by which he is made juif, ( and in Law foeftee- med , pronounced or judged) by being acquit from the con- demning Power ofthe Law, which( for his fins paft only) was before inforce againft him. And fo ifyou look to f'ch a Re- mifionor Juftification as wholly chtngeth the Rate of the per- fon, making himPardoned who was before whollyunpardon- eel, and fullyunder guilt of all former fins; or makinghim ju- ítified who was before unjuftified, and condemned (in Law ; ) neither ofthefe I think, are iterated. But then as you con- fefs a frequently renewed pardon for following fins, fo I know no reafon, but in the fame fence there muft be a frequent Juth- lying : Foras our Divines well conclude that fincannot be pardoned before it becommitted ( for then there thould be pardon without Cult; for no man is Guilty of fin cocome formally ;) fo is it as neceffary to conclude, that no man is ju- ftified
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