The Life of Faith. 3 3 3 hateof r:ghtcoutnefs by pardon, it is tree. BLit the f Bowing all, of Faith are of the Carrie of and need to the continuing of our julirfication, or flare ofRighteoufmf,, as the íi, ti ad w.s for the beginning of ir. Errour rq.. That the continuance of01,r Juffification nerd th' no other conditions to be byus performed, than the continuance of that Faith on which it Tsar bagrn. Contr. Whet e that firff Faith cor,tintueth, there our Jatii- fication doth continuer But that Faith n_-vcr continueth with- out tincere obedience to Chrifl ; and that obedience is part of the condition ofthe continuance, or not toting our J.atii!ication (as , isproved before, and at large e'fewhere) The Faith which in' Baptifm we profefs, and by which we have our firfi Juhifica- tion or Covenant- right, is an accepting of Chrih as our Sa- viour and Lord to be obeyed by us in the ufc of his laving re- medies ; and we there vow and covenant future obedience. And as our marriage to Chrifl, or Covenant- moking, is all the conditionofour firff right to him, and his benefits, without any other goodworks or obedience; fo our Marriage- fidelity, or Covenant keeping, is part of the condition. of our continuance herein, or not toting it by a divorce, John 15. Col. t. 23 &c. Errour 15; That Faith is no condition of our part in Chrilf, andour Jofification, but only one ofGods gifts of the C rvenant, given withCbriff and Juliiftration.. Errour t 6. That the Covenant of Grace bath no conditions on our part, but only donatises on Gods part. Errour 17. y'h.t if'he Covenant load any conditions, it were not free. And that every condition ie a meritorious caufe, or at leafftome caufe. Contr. All there I have confuted at large elfewhere, and . proved t. That Faith is proper condition of thole benefits which ('sod giveth us by the conditional Covenant ofGrace but not ofall the benefits which he any other way giveth us. It was not the condition of his giving Cbriff to live and die for us ; nor ofhis giving us the Goffe!, or this Covenant it jet f ; nor ofhis giving us Preacbers, or of the firff motions ofh's Spirit ; nor was Faith the conditionofthe gift of Faith it fell; becaufc all theft arc not given us in that way, by that Covenant, but atfolutely, as God (hall pleafe. T t 3 a,.That<
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