:42z Faith the Condition of 74/if. continued. C W A P. 35. cifion of that State, and abreach of that Relation : But this is utterly falfe Yea , if fo , the 'unified should become Unj unified every day , for no man liveth & finneth.not. The reafon of the Confequence is , becaufe the non.. performan.ceof the Condition , upon which the State & Relation of the ju. f}rfied is continued, muff make abreach in that State. If it be faid, That not every fin,, but only fuch fins as are incontinent with the State of (ultifica- tion, will make an Intercifion. Then it mutt confequently be faid , that upon thefe alone , or on the non - performance of thefe alone Both the Con- tinuance of Junification depend , as on a Condition. And what be thefe ? David's 'fin , I hope , nor Peters fin , were none of thefe. And whatever they be , I fuppofe it will be granted , ( except by Arminian). ) that there is futficient provtfion againft thefe laid -in in the New Covenant of Grace ; and that fuch , as are junified indeed , shal never fall into Inch fins. And then , what need it be faid , that the State of Juttification is continued upon fuch termes ? 6. By this way , Proud Nature should have occañön to boaff , and fay. Ix was of God's Grace & Mercy , that I was brought intoa juftified State,. & had all my former fins pardoned ; but for my abiding & continueing the- rein ; and for the pardon of all my fins , that I have committed , or do com- mit fince , I am beholden to my own Gofpel- obedience immediatly;. for. Remiffion is granted , and my J.unification continued , upon Condition of my perfonal & Gofpel- obedience. But how incontinent this is with the whole ftraine of the Gofpel, cannot be unknown. We no -where read , that our tunes are pardoned , or not imputed tous, in or by our Evangelick Obedience ; but as we are juftified freely by grace , through. the Redem- ption that isin.Chrin Jefus, Ran. 3:24. fo it is in & through Him, & his blond, that we are washen & our hones purged away Mat. z6: 2a. R,eve1. 5. Ephef. 1:7. Cot I: 14. 7. The dayly experience of the people of God , may cleare to us , what that is, upon which their State is continued; and upon which they feek & obtaine new Retnilliorroftheir new Tranfgrefiions, and chew us, that it is not their own perfonal Obedience;, but the Grace & Mercy of God°,. in Je- fus Chrift for it i -sto this they betake themfelves daily, both- in reference to their being keeped in the favour of God , & in reference to their getting . new extras of Pardon ; It is to the blood of fprinkling they góe dayly, than there they may be washen, & cleanfed from all their fins & failings.. Iris to this fountaine opened to the houle of David & to the Inhabitans of Jeru- falem , that-they run with their fins & uncleanneffes. Zach. t; -: 1. For his his bloud alone , that cleanfeth from all fin. a. a'oh. is 7. And fo they linde by experience, that they nand only by Faith , and that it is through Faith in this blond, that they are keept in the favoure of God, & get their fns pardoned. Thefe proofs may ferve for confirmation of what we fay ; Let us now fee what Mr. Baxter faith for the contrary.. In his Confejj: p. 47. he adduceth three 'Arguments. The fire is this. The word exprefly conftï.tutetli thefe Conditions of our notlofeing, our Stare of. JP'
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