The Life ofFaith, proclaim this Covenant and ccinditional Pardon andJu(iica- tion to the world ; and fend our his Embaffadours with it to befecch men in his Name tobe reconciled to God, and to de- clare, yea and by facramental invetriture, to feat and deliver a Pardon and *dual Jutiification to Believers when they content. And as our Mediating High Prüff now in the Heavens, he prefenteth our necefiity, and his own righteoufncffes and fa. crilice as hie merite, for the continual communication of all this grace, by himfelf, as the Head of the Church, and Ad- miniltrator of theCovenant. So that Chr,ti doth jultifte us both as a fobje¿ï meriting, as a ficrifece meriting, as a Prieft offering that facrifice ; as a Icing aétually making the Juffifying Law, or ena Ling a general Pardon ; as a King fententially and executively juffifying ; as a Prophet or Angel of the Covenant promulgating it;. as King,, and Prophet, and Prieft, delivering a fealed Pardon by his Mel fingers : And as the Prieft, Head and -Adminifirator commu- nicating this with the refs of his benefits. By which you may fee in what refpecks Chriti mutt be believed in to Jullification, if Jutl,fying Faith were (as it is not)only the receiving him as our Juflifier : It would not be the receiving him as in one part ofhis office only. Dire6t. 3, Vnderftand rightly how far it is that the righte- oufnefs of Chrijt hint/elf is made ours, or imputed to us, andhow far not, There are molt vehement controverfics to this day, about the Imputation of Cbri,ts Kighteoufneß; in which I know not well which of the extreams are in the greater errour, thofe that plead for it in the mifiaken folk, or thofe that plead againfi it in the lober and right Ccnfe a But I make no doubt but they are both of them damnable, as plainly fubverting the foundation of our faith : And yet I do not think that they will prove alivary damning to the Authors, becaule I believe that they mifunderfland their adverlaries, and donot well un- derhand themfelves, and that they digeft not, andprathfe not what they plead for, but digeti and praaife that truth which they do6htnally fubvert, not knowing the contrariety; which if they knew they would renounce the «tour, and not the (ZS 3 trarfáti 309
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