Vie Cabman of prateOpeneD+ 161 our Repentance, Faith, Holinefs, and final Perfe- verance ; and that Chrift only merited or pur- chafed this Grant, that our Money, is e. our Faith, Obedience, &c. lhould go for good Coin in Heaven, andprocure our Juffification, Peace, and Eternal Life forusAnd thus the Glory that we are faved wouldnot belong to God and Jeflis Chrift alone ; true,that we might be faved, we may thank God andChrift; God, by the Deathof his Son, is made reconcilable, but that we are faved, wemay thank our felves, Chrift doing no more for us that are faved, than hedid for them that perifh but on- ly we had more Wit and Care than they had; i. e. for by improving our commonGrace, God was obliged to giveus his Special Grace. 3. After this Notion Chrift might be, or might not be .a Redeemer at all ; our Peace might, or might not be made with. God, "be caufe it wholly dependeth upon the Will of Man, Man's Will determines the Me of the whole matter, not that Chrift undertook to bow our Wills, or reconcile us to God ; no, but that we our felves muít Anfwer the Cone dition of Repentance, Faith, Gbedience, &c. or elfe all that Chrift bath done is loft, and comes tonothing ; and whymightnot all refufe to do this as well as force, who never will believe, 7e. Chrift (hall be a Redeemer, and make our Peace if we pleafe ;' this puts a Bar to the Pur- chafer (as one obferves) a Man can't in any good fenfe be called a Redeemer of filch Per- fons out of Slavery, till the Perfons perform i' thofe
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