2`áL 7t jifiatton by fait }) C Ii A P. 2r yet many of them had not a being , and fo Were not capable of being dealt with, according to the defect of their fin ; but it importeth , what is ';core emphatically expreined thereafter verf. ii. 'to wit , that God was laying their fins on Chriít' and making him tin , as to its demerite , or guilt , for them , thatthey might in due time be made the Righteournefs of God in Yet notw thftanding of all this , a&ual jutlification & Reconciliation is not before filth , as is clear from many paffages of Scripture , aßcrtit}g our. jutlification & life to by faith, Rom. i. 17, d7 ;. zS, & S: t. I pbef. z: S, Gals 2; 16,2.0. Aid it cannot be laid , to evite theforce of there & the like Scrip- tures , that this is to be underflood only of luírification , as to our feeling, fence & apprchenfion : for the cafe , which the í\poftle proveth all to-be into before jutlification, in his Epiílle to the keo,tlans Chap. A.& 2. (1.5' 3, is Such as cannot confiït With a ju(lified (late, as to be under (in, Rpm. 3: 9. to have ti,eir' mouth flopped, & beguilty before God verf. i 9.But it is manifeft, that many, who are now not under the Law , nor under Lin, but delivered from 'under troth yet may & do want the fenfe & feeling of their jollification, & doubt there- of. And betide thiscroifeth the whole (cope of the Apoftle , in proving, ju- flification by faith which is to evince,, that jutlification is not by the works of the law , or the works ofRighteoufnefs, which we do; fo that the juai- fication , whereof the Apoftle fpeaketh , cannot be by works , but by í' ^ith alone ; but the inanifeilation òf jutlification to our fence Wcontciences, can well be by works , as James sheweth &proveth Chap. 2. Works can contri- bute unto this , but not unto thatjuflification , whereof the Apotile fpeaketh in his Eptttles to the &otn,2nt & Galattanr,& which is jutlification in the fight of God. That ju(lification is not beforefaith , is manifeft from the ondition, which the Scripture telleth us , fuch are into , who have not yet bcicevcd ; for if that condition be fuch , as is inconf dent with a flare of jollification & Reconcilia- tion , there can be no jutlification before faith : now the Scripture telleth us, that fuch as beleeve not, are condemned job. 3:18. dead in trepa yes 15 fins, chil- dren of wrath, Ephef; z: I, 2, 3. Without Chrifl , dT without God in the world, flrangert from the Covenants of promife Ephof. 2: 12. have made God a !list, t job. 5: r o. cannot pleaJe God Hob. Y r: 6, By all which , & many like paf- fazes, that might be cited, it is manifet', that before faith, there is no real ju- tlification, Faith is required in order to adoption, & Remiffìon of fins, and therefore muff be before jutlification feh, 1: 12. Ai!. io: 43. Gal, 3: 26, 2tt.i: IS, ;9. dT 26: IS. But enough of this, feing M. Barter hath abundantly con - futed it,in his Conf T.pag 229, d7c. Some move this Objc &ion. If we are jufli fled by faith , then faith is in order before juß,f4cation; elf confeguently the altisbefore the object, whereas on the ,con- trary the aft depends upon the objetl , & not the objeft upon the aft , Thus farm. de jufttf. lib, r. c. to. difputeth a gaulít the affertion, that maketh the fpecial mercy of God to be the ohjeft ofjuuìifying faith: wherein the ground of the'whole debate, lyeth in a miftake of that fpecial mercy of God ; and whatever mitlake may be, at lea ,lt as to expref ion , in the ailertion , which Bel-
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