C 8 . that all other acs of our faith were excluded. As his blood is the meritorious caufe, and fo the foundation of all the bene- fits,and fo all the Applying Caufes are fuppofed in the mention of it,and not excluded fo are all other ads of our faith in the mention of that a&. Rom. 5 .9. faith not that we are juflified oily by his blood. N ,r is it any adding to the Scripture, to add more, unlef, you can prove that tht-f texts are the whole Scripture, or that the other Scriptures add no more. ephe. 17. and i -john I.7.doneither of them excludeeither the other acts of Chril, or other ads offaith : Nay 7cchn feems to make fomewhat elfe the conditionon our part, then the be- lief in that blood only , when he `faith there [ Ifwe walkin the Light a he ú in the Light, we havefellow[hip one with another, aad the bloodof Wu' ('brili his Son cleanfeth us from all fin] Or if you think this [ if ] denoteth but a fign, yet other texts will plainlyprove more. To conclude, If I were to go only to the blood of Chrift for atonement, yet it would not follow, that going to that blood only for it, is the only act of Faith on which Jultification is promifed or given me in the Gofpe! , as is before. declar- ed. t_Mr. Blake. Too demand, [willyou exclude his Obedience, Refurre?ion, `ntercefon ] ? To which I only fay, I marvell at the queflion : IfI exclude thefe, I exclude his blood : Hu /bedding of blood was in Obedience,John i o.18.. Phil. i.8:húRefurrelíion Wu hú free 'Jam front thebands ofdeath , and an evidence of our difcbarge by blood: His Intercefonisfounded onhis blood.He inter- cedes not as we by barepetition, but by merit : Heprefer ::: hu blood 4t4 the high Priefi in the Holyof Holies.. Repl. It was the thing .I had to do, to prove that Rom. 3 24. and thofe other texts, are not exclufive of all but his blood» and that the wordonly is no more meant, then it is expreffed in them. And now you grant it me: And needs mutt do it, while Scripture tells us, that by the Obedience of one, many are made Righteous, Rom. 5,19. and that be isRifenfor ourjuffifk'ation, Rom. 4.25. and that Righteoufrwfs /hallbe imputed to tu, if we believeon him that railedup yefus our Lord from the dead.ver, i4. and
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