90 The Covenant of Works Chap. i 3. Keckerman, page 107. A tranfient all is not terminated within the fubjetl, brat bath its efetl, and is ,terminated upon (me other object. Now if by way of analogy we may apply there to God, ( for we otherwi(e can reach none of his acetions) it is eafie to conclude that ;unification of a firmer is a tranfient, and no im- manent a&; It works man from a Elate of wrath to a Elate of friecdfhip and love, of -a veffelt of wrath, brings man into favour and efteeme, which though it woi k no Phyfical change in man, yet the whole effect is terminated in him ; That act of 'Pharaoh had as reali an of ea upon Iofeph,and was terminated inhim in his advancement out of prifon for rule in Egypt, as though a Phyfi- cian in cafe of fickneffe had wrought a cure upon him. Though I were not able to hold it out that ¡unification were a tranfient a &,but according to our conception of the actions of man , it fhould rather appear to be an action immanent in God, fo in him that it had no effeel out of him, yet I muff follow the Scriptures that make ¡unification an ad in time, not from eternity. Paul having mentioned a flare of finne under which the Corinthians were, faith,Such were form of you, but ye are wafned, but ye are fanttified, but ye are 'juf :fled, i Cor. 6. ft. Once they were not, but now they are in a ftate of juflification ; it bath its rl ry v in which it is acted, a feafon in which it is vouchfafed. It is affixed to faith. Ails 3. 3 8. Now faith is not from eternity , it cornes by hearing;.A Miniftery is continually irnployed for reconciliati- on and pardon of fin, t Cor. S. 19. lohn 20. Which were in vaine if ¡unification were as elcdion, frcm before the foundation of the world; They work them not to election, but only call upon them to make their calling and eleWtion fore; There are feniors and juniors in this priviledge, one obtaines it before another; A1ndro- nictu and junia Were in Chrift before the /l po (Ile , Rom. i 6. -. Thefe evident proofs would take with my faith above a thoufand fuch fubtilties. But herein the Schools in their application of . there ads to God, (peak according (as to the point in hand) to the minde of Scriptures. Fourthly, It -is farther objected that Chriff is the Lamb flaine from the beginning of the world. His death bath been of efficacy in the Church through all ages, And he bore our fins in bù body, Y Pet. 2, 2g!1'.911 our fins did meet in him, Ifay 5 3.6. and there- fore from the beginning we were ¡unified. I anfwer, Tranjlens attio of qua revera mutatioretr7 infers. 6tbjecá,
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