The Life ofFaith. 329 penalties of fenfc and lots, and uting us' às pardoned in title: and fo that the givingofhis Spirit, is his very Pretence of Ju- fificatiex in this life, as it is his declaration as aforefaid. And doubticfs executive pardon is the molt perf.$ and comp-leaf, as being the end and perfe &ion cfall the raft. There- fore God maketh us Oft in title by Covenant- pardon , and therefore hefrnteneetb us as j-.f, that he may take off all penal- ty, and giveus the felicity due to the righteous s and may aeJa us as thofe that arc made juif. There is much truth in molt of the ford-kid opinions inclu- fivrly, and much faithnod in their feveral exclufions of all the reft (unlefs their quarrel be only kit menu, which of all there is firlicft called Juffification. For r. There is no doubt but oar pardon, or conffitated Jutlification in Covenant- title, is a virtual fentential 7uf4ification. 2. And there is no doubt but God doth effeem them juíf, that arc Ertl made jaft, and no other (b caufe he crreth not t) And that tltiis et(titnatien is fententile concepts as diftin& from f»tentia prelati. 3. And it is certain that thofc Angels that muff execute his fentence,.muti fiat /amore it: And iris probable that the Joy 4regarop ¿» o,r in theprefnce of the Angels of God, doth intimate that God ufcthordinarily to notitìe the convertiod of a firmer to An- gels (whether the joy here be meant as Dr. H.o.oim )nd and others think, Gods Toyfignifled to Angels, or rather the Angel: 7,y, by their pretence being, in Chore Angelarsem, or aturïtb them, that is, in them ; or bark) 4. And it is granted that God loth ufually give Tome notice of his pardon; at one time or other, more or jets to a fingers confcience (though that is too late, too uncertain, too low, and too uneri ial, and tai un- conftant to be the great and famaus Juffifi:arien by Faith.) 5.. And it is clear, that till dcaib or Jud ;mint, there is no f;ch folemn plenary judicial fence ;see or declaration as there will be then. 6. And it is certain,that at death and judgement, Chrifi as Ívlm, a creature, can (peak or expr-efs himfclf, as the blcf_d creatures do to one another. 7 And its certain that God bath a way ofexprelling himfelf to creatures, which is beyond our prefent underfandings : But we may conceive oú it by the firnilitudeof Ligbt, which in the fap e intiant revc-al- eth millions of things to millions of 'perf7ns refpe&ively. T t (Though
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