332' . The Life ofFaith, doned (or elfe we thouldyet perith)íis nor Co ported as that - Pardon and Juftification in the conclufion of our lives, when all fin that ever will be committed is forgiven abfolureiy. 6. The ki;tdof our preterit Jt tification is ímperfec`f; it being but in Covenant- title, and fcme part of execution; the full and Fe f_d fentence and execution, being at the day t f Judg. mcnr. I leave them therefore to fay [Chrigs HighteoufneIs imputed to us is p2rfe51 ; therefore we are as perfectly off and justified ar atilt] who know not what Imputation here is ; nor that Chrifts perfonal Righteoufnefs is no: given to us as pr,>prie- tors, in it far, but in the effects; and who know not the clif- f "firence between 1 elievirg and blafpheming, and making our i fdves as fo marry Chrifis to our fclves ; and that know not 1 what need they have of Christ, or of Faith, or Prayer, or of any holy endeavour for anymore Pardon, and Righteoufneçs or Jutliticar ion, than they have already : Or who thinke that David in his Adultery and Murder was as pettedlypardoned and juttified as he will be in Heaven at lati : And in a word, `who know not thedifference between Earth and Heaven. Errour 12. That Chriff juffífietbus only as aPrieff : Or (fay ethers) only as obeying and fatisiying. Contr. Chriti meritedour Jufirfrcaticn in his ftate of humilia- tion, as the Mediator fubjected to the Law, andperfectly obeying it and as a facrifice for fin. But this is not juffifying toe. Cheat offered that facrifice as the High Priedof the Churchor world : But this was not ¡unifying ul,a, Chrift made us the New co venant as our King, and as the great Prophet of the Father ar Angel ofthe Covenant, Mal. 3. s. And this Covenant giveth . us our pardon and title to impunity, and to life eternal ; And Chrift as our King and Judgedoth justifie us by a Judiciary Sentence, and alto by the execution of that fentence : fo that the relations molt eminently appear in our Jutlification, are all excluded by the forefaid errour. Errour r3. That we are juftifiedonly by thefirff act ofFaith; and dour believing afterwards to the end ofour lives, are no ju- Prfying acts at all. Contr. Indeed if the queftion be only about the Name of 7wftifying, if you will take it only for cur fintt change into a Elate
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