41 Z Faith in juftif. fpeci,clly eyeth Cbrifl , ots a PrieJt. C H A P. 34 tu( fay , that beleevers are already perfenly Sanctified , and Glorified. (z) Will he fay , that there is no more required to the anual Poffetlion of Glory & full Sannification , than here he faith is required unto the Title? Butit is like, he will comprehend under this Faith all after Gofpel- obedien- ce ; But then, all this mutt preceed to jufIifìcatío t &c. as well as to anual Glorification , & fo none shall be juftified, till they be Glorified, or he rnuft admit ofdifferences here. (3) As notwithítanding of what he faith here , he will , Ifuppofe , grant that Faith bath a Further & fpecial acting or manner ofac`tingon Chrift , in order to obtaining of Light , Life, Strength , and other things neceftary in & for grouch in Sannification : fo he may fuller us to fay , that notwithftanding offthis , Faith in a fpecial manner eyeth & aEteth upon Chrift , as a Prieft , in order to ju[tification; for there is no mo- re inconfiftency in the one , than in the other. The humant inftances , whereby he thinks to make this plainer ( n. 116. ) do not help here. A wife's. relation'( faith he) it founded in her marriage confent. Now if he be a noble man , a rich man, a wife man , a good man, a they knew all this d? by knowing it were induced to confent, is' are to have their proportionablebe- nef't4; by his Nobility , Richer ¿7c. Yet their Title to thefe benefice ari feth not from' the all of their confent , as it refpefleth thefe benef't,s diJhnflly , but meerly by con. fentunto their Relation. 4nf. Notwithftanding hereof , when the woman is charged by her Creditors to pay her debt , her running to her husbands Wif- dom , Nobility , & Goodnefs will not avail her ; but she muft in a fpecial manner run to his Riches & muft from thence bring a Satisfactory payment tinto her Creditors : And if he whom she bath taken for her husband, bath already fatisfied the debt , she is to iuftrun that before the judges) be- fore whom her alleidging, that her now - husband is a great Noble man , and a molt Wife man &c. will not avail. We grant allo , that by Faith the Be- leever is united & married unto Chrift & bath thereby a Right, unto Him & to all his Benefices according to their neceffity : Yet will the Lord have, that, in order to their ad Jai juftification , they shall apply his Merires, lay' hold thereon, & ás it were , produce the fame in face of Court, as the on- ly ground of their Difcharge : as in order to their anual Glorification, he will have them doing many other things. In end ( n. i 17. ) he tels usL, that to fay ( faith juftifieth me, as it isthe receiving of Chrift's Righteoufnefs , & not as it is the receiving of Chriftl, as a Teacher , Ruler ] &c. is a confounding or [educing laying. But as yet we have feen no ftrong reafons evinceing this to be fuch a feducing or confoun- ding raying: but the contrary is apparent from what is Paid. Let us fee why he judgeth thus. For (fayeth he) if it intimate, that faith juftifieth us as anefficient caul, [ principal or infirumental] it it falfe. But we have feen before , that faith may be conìdered here as an Initrument, &'to fay this, is neither to confound nor feduce : otherwayes all the Reformed , yea & his friend Phil Goodwine have been Confounders & deceivers, & none but Mr. Báxfer, With Papij s.& Socinians &forre Arminians, are free of this char- ge. 2.' ( faith he) ¡fit meane, that faith is the condition of juftification , as it rzceivech Cilia's Righteoufnefs only, it bath either one or two falshoods. We
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