2.9 ) aide all this to day is the thirdday_pee there things weredone; and certain women alfo of our company made us aflossrfhed which Were early at the Sep ch.re 0 fools and 119W of heart to belaeve a'l that the Pro,^hers have fpoken ! Ought not Chrift to havefilffe,ed there things, and to enter into his Glory? verf. 45. Then opened be their underflanding that they might underfland the Scripture.) John 20.9. [For asyet they knew n9t the Scripture that henull rifè againfrom the dead.] By all this it is plain that the Difciples then believed notChrifts death or Refurret`iion. Yet that they were juftified, is apparent in many Texts of Scripture,where Chrifl pronounceth themclean by the wordwhich he bad fpoken, John r 5 3. and oft called-them blefled, Mat. 5. & 6.17. Luke 6. And he faith that the Father loved thus : j ohn 16.27. They werebranches in him the living Vine, andexhorted to abide in him, John 15 5,6,7. And that they were Belie- vers is oft expreft ; and particularly that they Believed in him a the fan of God, and trufled it was he that fhould redeem Traci' : that is by Power, and not by Death : and that they took him for -their LA/faller. and Teacher,and the King ofIfrael; fomeofthem defring to fit at his right and left hand in his Kingdom, and firiving who fhould be the greater$ about him, John.16.27. The Father himfelf lovethyou, becaufe ye bave lovedme, andhave be- lieved that 1 came out fromGod.] John 1. 49. [ Nathaniel an- fWered and faith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the fonof god : thou art the King ofIfrael ] Here was the Paving faith of the Difci- pies, Afatth.16.16. Simon Peter anfwered and Paid , Thom art Cbrifl, thefon of the livingGod. ] Object. But was it pofftble for than to be juflified without the bloodof Chrifl ? eAnfw No : as-to the Fathers acceptance, his blood even then before it was flied, was the meritorious caufe of their Jufti- fication ; But theywere jttftified by it, without the knowledge or belief of it, thought not without faith in Chrift as the fon of God, the Mefliah, the Rabbi, and the King of I frael. Which alloThews that faith did not then juflifie them in thenewNotion of an Inftrumental caufe apprehending the purchafing caufe ; or that the effects of Chrifts feveral aaswere not dwerfifked ac- cording to the fcv'eral.afts of faith to thole as Objecis. E 3 I a
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