The Life of Faith. 315 ofwhommany were greater (inners than you ; and no one ofthem (Cave Chrift) came thither by the wayof innocency and,legal Jollification : There are no Saints in Heaven that were nor redeemed from the captivity of the Devil, and jutii- fied by the way of pardoning grace, and were not once the heirs ofdeath, 3ebn 3. 3, T. Rohn. 3, & 4. Upon thcfe confederations trufi your (elves confidently on the grace of C hrift, and take all your, fins but as the advan- tages of his grace. Dire. 9. Remember that there is ffinewbat on your cave pair to be done, for thecontinuan*, of well as for the begintisog of your 3uffificotion; yea fotnewbat more than for the beginning; eventbefaithful keeping ofyour baptifmal Covenant, in the effen- tials of ir; and alfe thinyou'have continual need of Chrìfi, to cons inueyour Juftiffcation. Many take Juftification to be one inftantánicus ad of God, which is never afterwards to be done : And fo it is,if we mean only the fïaft maltingof him rigbtecus who was unrighteans : (As the firft making of the world, and not the continuance cf it, is called Creation :) but this is but about the name : For the thing is Pelf , no doubt but that Covenant which lira j ufli fled us, doth continue to jufifie us ; and if the cauje thould ceafe, the effeai would ceafe. And he that requireth no ac9ual obe- dience, as the condition of our tegun juflifi:ation, do:h re- quire both the continuance offaith, and aûual fincere obedience, as the condition of contiruing, or not lofing Our IAMotion, (as Davenant, Bergius, Blank, etT'c. have well opened, and I have elf:where proved at i rge.) As Matrimony giveth title to con- jugal prtvil_dgepto the wife; but corjugal fidelityani perfor- mance of the t flènrials of the co itraé is nccefTary to cont:n e them. Therefore labour to keep upyour fa.tlt, and ro aiide in Chrift, and he in you, and tobring forth fruit, 1,11 ye be branches withered, and for the fire, 7obn 15. a, 3, 7, 8, 9, &c. And upon the former mifapprcher.fion, the f:enepetforts de look upon all the faith which they exercile through their lives, after the fittt inftantanious a61, as no juftifying faith at all (but only a faith of the fame kind) but to what ate they hardly know. Yea they look upon Chtift hitnfelf,. as if they R 2 had
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