Chap; 13. AnExpofitionupon theBookofJos. Verf. 18. 475 vital act, who have not a fiducial act of faith : and therefore, while the Apoftle in this verfe, faith, Ihave writtenuntoyew-hat believe on the Name of the Son of God, he alfo faith, Ihavewrit- ten, that ye may believe on the Noneof the Son ofGod. If they did believe before, why loth he write unto them that they might believe ? They had the faith of adherence and recum- bence, but he defires to raife and heighten them to the faithof evidence and affurance. Such .a faith the Apoftle expreffeth (2 Cor.4.i4,) Knowing that hewhich raifed up the Lord Jefus,(hall raife us upalfoby jefus, and fhall prefent us withyou. (Knowing this) How did theApoftle know this? Not barely by (pecula- tion, not at all by experience, for he was not yet raifed up c But hewas allured of it, as if it had been already done, that he which raifed up the Lord Jefus, ¡hall raifs us asp alfo bl Joins. When Job faith, Iknow I fhall bejuftified, his was not a fpe- culative knowledge, but partly an experimental knowledge, for he found that he was already juftified, and partly a faducial knowledge ; I know, that is, I am fore that the Lordwill juftifie me and that I fluffdepart from this bar acquitted in this comm., verlie. He Moth not fay, I know that I have not finned, but I know that I ihall be jultified from my fin,and not only carry this prefent caufe, but continue in the love and gracious acceptance of God for ever. I know I ¡hall be juflifted. Jollification is the declaring of a man to be ju : He is jutt,not plus lama* only who bath no fin, but he who is acquitted from his fin, or to Pro nunciarergt whom his fin is not imputed. He is righteous whomGod pro- aid d ieorre nounceth righteous, though in'himfelf ungodly, for God julti- ¡Pca,;is fieth theungodly, Rom.4. g. Jobknew he was this jut}iñed; yet obtinere dr a I conceiveahe jollification (trialy intended here, is the deter- justice fente>rti_ minationof the queftion between him and his friends onhis fide; am in faworcas which yet reached his total [landing in a (lateof juftification. seirsveni.: This he oppofeth towhat he had affirmed ofthe hypocrite in the tur an tulieío, former words, Anhypocrite (hall not come before him, that is, he aeon qui craps (hall not be juttified', but I know that I (hall be juiified. caret, fedqui Hence Obferve, iuftus dettarea P rft, That agodly man, even in this life,may arrive at affurance tar. San&. that heis, andThall continue in agood, in ajufli feed condition. Pap p 2 It
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