whereon it cloth depend. 2 o9 ftification unto the end. And herein it is, that the yufl live by Faith, and the lofs of this life can only be by unbelief. So the life which we now live in the flefb, is by the Faith of the Son of God, who loved us and gave himfelf for us, Gal. 2. 20. The life whichwe now lead in the flefh, is the continuation of our Juftification, a life of Righteoufnefs and Acceptation with God, in oppofition unto a life by the works of the Law, as the next words declare, ver. 21. I do not fi'uflrate the Grace of God, for if Righteoufnef came by the Law, then is Chrifl dead in vain ; and this life is by Faith in Chrift as he loved us, and gave himfelf for us, that is, as he was a Propitiation for our fins. This then is the only way, means, and caufe on our part of the prefervation of this life, of the continuance of our Juftification ; and herein are we kept by the power of God through Faith unto Salvation. Again ; if the continua- tion of our Juftification dependeth on our own works of Obedience, then is the Righteoufnefs of Chrift imputed unto us only with refpe& unto our Juftification at firft, or our firft Juftification as fome (peak. And this indeed is the Do&rine of the Roman School. They teach that the Righteoufnefs of Chrift is fo far imputed unto us, that on the account thereof God gives unto us Juilifying Grace, and thereby the Remifii- oh of Sin in their fenfe, whence they allow it the meritori- ous caufe of our Juftification. But on a fuppofition there- of, or the reception of that Grace, we are continued to be juftified before God by the works we perform by vertue of that Grace received. And though force of them rife fo high as to affirm, that this Grace and the works of it, need no farther refpelt' unto the Righteoufnef of Chri , to de(ërve oar fecond jujli fréation and life eternal ; as Both afquez exprefly, In I. 2. q. 114. Difp. 222. cap. 3. Yet many of them affirm that it is íä1l from the confederation of the merit of Chr. fl that they are fo meritorious. And the fame, for the fub- ftance of it , is the Judgment of force of them , who affirm E e the
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