I2 ) exciting any exercife of our Graces, thecafe flandeth as the Opponents apprehend it to do in Juftification. This Interefl of the At muff be judged of by the Objeci apprehended. For it is not the Belief of a Promife that feareth us, but of a Threatning ; nor the Belief of a Tbreatning that comforteth us,but of a Promife. For here the Objet worketh immediately on our minds, per m'dumob.eEl i apprehenf : But in Juftification it is not fo, where God is the Agent as a Donor, and there can be nothing done by us, but in order to mak a us fit Subjects ; and the change is not ,Qualitative by an ObjeEt as fueh, but ,elative by a Fundamenteene which is without us in the Gof- pele andnothing withinus but a qualifying Condition, without which it will not be done. Propofition 6. Accordingly I eafily grant, that the Senfe,or Ajfterance of Juflification in our Confciences iswrought by the Ohjeí(t as anObje5t : Becaufe this AJfisrance is a part of our Sanc`fiic.ation. But that Objet is not direly Chrifts Ranfome, but the Prornifethrough his blood, and our own Faith which is the conditionof that Promife. Propojition ®. I eafily grant that Faith in Chrift air Lord or Teacher ofthe Church, is not theInftrumentalefficient Caufe of our juftifcation:They need not therefore contendagainft me in this. But withal! I fay, that faith in his Prieft hood is not the Inftrumental efficient Caufe neither ; though I allow it to have a nearer Phyfical Relation to the Ranfome which merit- eth our Juftification. Propofition 8. Though there is a greater (hew of Reafon to affert the Intereft of the fingle Belief in Chtifts Prief}-hood ,. for a particular Pardon,then for our ktrftgeneral Pardon; yet in- deed it is but a fhew,even there alfo.For it is not only the apply- ingour lei esto his blood or Ranfome,but it is all'o the applying. our felves to whole Chrift , to make up the whole breach, that is the Condition of our particular Pardon, ( fo far as a parti- cular At of tath is a Condition) which though it be not a. Receiving " bruifi for Union with hitn,ás we did in the beginning, yetis it a rect°iivinghim ad boc et f cundum quid ; and arenewed. Content to his whole Office, and adhefion tohim as-our fpe cia.l remedy for recovery frotta. that 'tall, by freeing us both from.tPie patand .fta n of Sin . Prop:ft;ea:.
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