548 Arguments Agarnf1 Umverfal Redemption. came to purchafe any good , unto thefe fame shall it actually, in due time, & in the Method & manner Condefcended upon & prefcribed , be given; & upon them , & none elfe , shall it act ally be bellowed : for (1.) No other thing , betide this Application , can-be fuppofed to have been the end of the Impetration ; And Pure, Chrift was herein a Rational Agent : Nay , it was the Intention & defigne of the Father that the Application of thefe good things should be by the meanes of this Impetration , as is abundantly cleared above. (z.) We cannot fuppofe that either Chrift , or his Father , should faile , or come short of their end deigned; but by our Adverfaries the 1111' petration might have been obtained , and yet no Application made of the good things impetrated & obtained. (3.) If no Application was intended by the Father or by ChrifI , then it muff be faid , that both were uncertain , as to what the Event should have been , or at leaft Regardlefs & Unconcerned; either of which toaffirane were blafplaerny. (.L.) The very word Impetrate, having the fame force & import with , Parrcha fe , Procure , Obtaine, Merite, and the like, doth fay , that Inch , for whom this Impetration was made, have a right , upon the Impetration , to the thing Acquired & Purchafed And if they have a right thereto , that Poffeffion should follow. (5.) Yea the word importeth , the adua1 conferring of the good , to be the very end of thePurchafeingg & Impetrating ; and fo , in this cafe , the very Impetration is ground of Afiurance of the Application , confidering, who did impetrate, and at whole hands, and withal! , what was the ground of the Fathers fen- ding ofChrift, and of Chrifts coming to impetrate , even inconceiveably wonderful & great Love. Nor doth the intervening of a condition , requi- red before the adual collation of force of the good things purchafed , hinder at all ; for all thefe Bleffings , force whereof are as a condition to others, are the one good thing Impetrated,and the very conditions are alto Impetrated, as we declared above : and fo this pointeth forth only the methodeof the aEtual bellowing of thefe good things purchafed. (6.) How abfurd is it to fay, a thing is Impetrated or Obtained , and yet may , or may not be Bellowed ; may be Pofi'effed,or not Pofïeffed ?Or to fay,that Inch a goodthing is Obtained by price or petitioning, and yet the fame good thing,may never be Beftowed or the Bellowing ofit hangeth & dependeth upon an Uncertain Condition , which may never beperformed ?(7.) How unreafonableis ir,that fuch should have right to the Merites, that have no right ro the thing Merited ? Doth not an intereft in the Merites, procureing any thing , include an intereft in the thing Merited ?; When a ranfome is payed for captives , to Elie end they may be delivered, have not thefe Captives a right to the deliverance, upon the payment of that ranfome ? (S.) The Scriptures do fo connect thefe two, that it arguesh cot tempt thereof, to imagine inch a feparation : as Rprn. 4. 25. Yea the one is afíigned as a certain EteEt & Confequent flowing from the Other , as its Moral caufe Efai. 53: i r. By his knowledge shall my righteous fervant juftifyrnany,this Juflificarron is theApplication;& whence cometh it? For hes hall bear their iniquities , there is the Impetration given as the ground hereof : So further verf. 5. he war wounded for our tranfgr, ionr, &c. and whet followeth upon this Impetration ? And by hit firipes are we healed. So Rpm. 5: verf,
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