284 fac c Virpiapsofttogotto 4,132acc dition of Peace with God, but an effea of it, or of Chrift's Merit, a Broken Heart being. one Promife in the Covenant. 6. ASinner hath not, cannot, have aaual intereft in the Bleflings of this Covenant, or have Peace in his own Soul, without Union with Chrift, which is accomplifhed by the Holy Spirit, and Faith of the Operation of God firft ofall, whereby it is, that the Soul is tranfplanted out of the ftrf Adam, that dead flock into the frond Adam that quick- 'ling Spirit. Moreover know that the Real and Relative Change is at one and the fame time ; andcertainly all that deny that there is a Change of State, as well as a Change of Heart, err exceedingly. (t .) Becaufe the Word of God pofitively declares, That by Ejb. 2.3. Nature the Elea are Childrenof Wrath, as well as others ; therefore more than under Wrath in their own Confcience ; for in their own Confciences theymay not apprehend they are theChildrenofWrathbefore they believe;) faith alfomuff be fomewhat more than an Evi- dence,the Soul having that in its aaual poffefïi- on, which it had not before. (2.) Becaufe they that believe, God fays, Are paffedfromDeath to Life ; that is, from a State of Death and Condemnation, into a State of Life and Juftilication : See_Job.5.z4. i 1òh. 3, 14. (3.) Becaufe the HolySpirit in. Conviaions, repre- fents the Rate of an Elea Sinner to himfelf, to be before Grace wretched and miferable, who is a true and faithful Witnefs, and can- not lie. Brethren, as the firft Adam, and all in
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