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or
innocency
:
Why
?
Becaufe it
is
now made
fuch
a
grace
as
excludes all kind
of
boafting
:
For
were
it
but the
ftirring
up
of
any
power we
had
in
Adam,
it
would no more
exclude
boaft-
ing, than
if
God
ftirred
up
any
other
grace
;
as
Love,
Hope,
Fear,
and
the
like
:
But
that
it
excludes
boafting) this
may
be
the
m'oft
fatisfadory
anfwer
;
Works
they
could
not exclude
boafting
;
Why,
though they were from
the race and gift
of
God,
yet they belonged to
mans
nature
;
for.,;if
God
will
make
a
rational creature,he
muff give it
thole perfections
that
are due
to
that nature
:
Now
the
Image
of
Go.i, was
in force
regard
due
to
fuch
a
nature. But
now, God when'he
comes to give
faith,
he
gives
a
higher thing than
ever
was due
to
the
nature
of
man:
hence
there
is
a
greater
myfterie
-in
faith
than
in
any
other
grace
;
and
therefore
it
is a
great myfterie that God
fhould juftifie
a
man
by
faith,
and
yet
this
excludes
boafting more than any
ocher
thing.
I,
but the
Scripture (ayes,
God imputes
faithfor
righteoufneß;
ObJetI,
and
when God
inables
¡so
to
believe,
Is
it
net
our
own
?
Yea,
then
we have ir, it
is
our own
.
and
when we
are
e4nfw.
juftified, it
is
imputed to
us
for
righteoufnefs
;
but
mark what
I
(hall fay, it
will
be
úfeful
for
the underftanding that
Text
in
Rorn.4..22. Where,
it
fayes,faitb
was
imputed
to
him
for rig
hte-
oufnef
;
ye
muft
not underhand
it
thus, that
is, that God
did
through the
grace
of
Chrift
now
accept
of
Abraham's
faith
as
his
righteoufnefs, whereby
he
should Rand
to
be
juí`ti6ed
by it
in
the fight of
God;
he
did
not thus accept
of
faith
for
righteouf-
nefs
;
no, not through
the mediation
of
Chrift,
nor
by
vertue
of
any
Covenant
made by
God
with
Chrift
:
God
did never
make
any
Covenant with
Chrift,that
whereas
man
did
owe obedience
to
all
the
Law,
and
that fhould
have
been
his
righteoufnefs
had
he
continued
in it
;
but man now being
unable to
perform
it, that
God
would
be
now
fo
favourable to
him
as
that
he
would accept
.
of
faith for righteoufnefs, that
is
not
the
meaning
of
it
;
for
the
word
in
the
Original tranllated
for
righteoufnefs, it
is
thtis,
it
was
imputedunto righteoufnefs, it
is
the
fame
word sled
in
Rona..
10.10.
With the
heart
man
believeth unto Rip-hteouf
Hers,
and
with
the
mouth
Confefon
is
made unto
Salvation
:
Now
Confefli
on
with the
mouth
is
not
made Salvation it
felf,
but
unto
Salva-
D
tion