Gofpel-Obcdience no Condition of 7rtfßification. C x A P. 3 r, lowship with God through faith in Jefus Chrift , evidenced by their walk-- ing in the light ( as is clear from ver(. 6. and this in particular , that as they will be dayly failing , fo they will have ready acceffe fo the blood of Chrift ;, to get alftheir fins cleanfed away. Neither is the Apòftle here fpeaking.ofthe firft Pardon granted , when perfons are tranflated into a (late of )uflification, but heis (peaking of fuch , as are already in that State. He cite .h next to:this. purpofe i. Pet. r: 2. & addech they were not elefted to the benefrte of being fprink= led with the blood of Chrift , without obedience. Making that a condition of being fprinkled with the blood of Chrift , which the Apoftle mentioneth , as a diftint medium, to which they were- ele6ted , in reference to eternal life,. the fupream end , as to them And he might as well fay , they were not eleEted to the benefice of obedience without being fprinkled with the blood of Chrift : and that too agreeth more with truth. His 9; ground p. '5'7. is. That to forgive injuries is anali of Evangelical obe,. dience to that precept Mat. 11 :25. And yet without this, men cannot be pardoned d? fo not jufiifi ed. Mark. i r: 25. Mat. 6: i ç. & IS: 3 5. dnf: Though men cannot be pardoned without this , it trill not follow , that therefore it is a part of the condition of J uftification : but only proveth, thatthismuft be pre- lent , as an evidence of their acting Faith on Jefus Chritt in truth & reality, in order to pardon : And thefe paffages are explications of the fife petition of the Lord's prayer, the fenfe whereof is well given in our larger Catechifine §. 194. in thefe words, which we are the rather emboldened to ask. a encoura- gedtoexpel. when we have this teflimony in ourfelves, that we from the heart forgive others their offences. His io. & laft ground is. That Repentance it an aft of Evangelical Obedience Att. 17: 3o. dg yet pardon of fin , rvhichiseUencial to jujhlcacion is not to be obtained without it. -Luk 13:3, 5. Anf. Of Repentance we have Paid enough above Chap. XXV. I wonder how he can to this end cite Lu 13: ;,ç. where no mention is made of Remiflion of fins;.. but perishing threatned to all; that will not repent. lfshall not here meddle with ,his mis reprefentation of war do &rive, -in- the following pages,. nor with the grounds & ieafons of the preference he giveth , untó his way , feing, by all that he (peaks , he bewrayech utter ignorance of the Gofpel truth, which we owne, & of its true Tendency to promove Gofpel holinefs, beyond any other 'way , w hat- fomever, hatched by Papifl's & Socinians, that.may be little or nothing beholden to lefus: Chrift., for Grace here, or for Glory hereafter. And his Infinuations, as if we did not preffe Repentance & Holinefs, is little to his credire, or to- the credite of the caufe he tnaintaineth, feing the contrarie is fo well -known, to fay no more. Nor shalli infift on the grounds he layeth down, . to overturne the whole argueings of the ApoRIe in this matter, feing they are, upon the matter, the fame, tha( others have laid down , and have been before fpoken to: for from a.tedious difcourfe concerning the miflaking apprehenfionsof the ;e- wes., about the Law. & the works thereof, in order to juftificat.ion, . to very little pupae a he inferreth pr its that doubt1efi Paul's denial of tuft:. o
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