T!e Life ofFaith. 327 of apology or plea ; and all Jutiitication by witneffcs and evi- denec-, de:. and all the con(fittative caufes of our Righteoufhefs, left I hinder thermwhom I would help, by ufngmore dtflin- r ions than they ate willing to lcarn.But ihcfe few ate nceeffary. a. Ids one thing for God tó make us Righteous, by for- giving oli our fins of commiflion and omiffion, for the fake of Chrifts L.:,tiladtion and obedience. z. It is another thing for God to efteem us to be Co Ri6h- trous when he bath tirf made us fo. 3 It is another for God tofentence us Righteous as the Pub- lics Judge, by Jefus Chrifi. 4. And it is another thing for God to take offall penalties and evils, and to give us all the good which belong to the Righteous , and fo to execute his own Lawc and Sentence. And he that will not dit inguith of theft fades or forts of Jo- ttification, (hall not difpute with me. And while I am upon this, I will give the Reader theft two remarks and counfcls. I. That he will not in difputing. about Jutlification, with any fed, begin the difpute of the Thing, till he hath íìr(1 determined and agreed of their fenfe, of the ¡Yard. And that he will not confound the Conrrover(ics de nomineabout the word, with thofe de re, about the matter. And that he will remember in citing texts of Scripture; that Beta, and many of our ball Expolitors, do grant to the Pa- pifts (as I heard Bithop Vfb r alfo do) that Come texts of Scripture do take the word [JuJiifie] as they do, for Pardon and Sarillificariog conjundly t As Titus 3.. 7.. t Cor. 6. t t. Rom. $. 30, three famous texts; of which fee Le Blank at large in his The! de nom, Juffific. If the controvertie be only of the finkofa Text, handle it accordingly: If of the matter', . turn it not to words. 2. Note this Obfervation, that Sanaificatian it felf, or the giving us the Spirit, is a great aft (though I fay nor the on- ly) of executive Juflification. The with holding of the Spi-i rit is the greaten puni(hment inflitfcd in this life; and th:rc- fore the giving ofthe Spirit is the removalor executive remit- ing of the greaten penalty r So that if pardon were only as Dr. 2wile thought, a non- punire, a riot 'punifhing, thétr this were the mod proper,gs well as plenáty pardon in this tile. Bu the
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