2 12 Evangelical Perfonal Righteoufnefs, ther really heterogeneous or otherwife fuperfluous, are fepa- . rated from it, we cannot underftand aright the true ftate of the Queftion about the nature and caufes of our Juflificati- on before God. For we intend one only Jufifcation, name- ly, that whereby God at once freely by his Grace juftifieth a convinced finner through Faith in the Blood of Chrift. Whatever elfe any will be pleafed to call 7ufiiication, we are not concerned in it, nor are the Confciences of them that believe. To the fame purpofe we mutt therefore briefly alto confider what is ufually difputed about our own perfonal Righteoufnef, with a Juftification thereon, as alto what is called fentential :ufification at the day of Judgment. And I (hall treat no farther of them in this place, but only as it is neceflary to free the principal fubje& under confederation, from being intermixed with them, as really it is not concer- ned in them. For what Influence our own perfonal Righte- oufne[ hath into our Juftification before God, will be after- wards particularly examined. Here we shall only confider fuch a notion of it, as feems to enterfere with it, and difturb . the right underftanding of it. But yet I fay concerning this alto, that it rather belongs unto the Difference that will be among us in the Expreon of our conceptions about fpiritual things whilst we know but in part, than unto the fubfFance of the Doctrine it felf And on fuch differences no breach of Charity can enfue, whilst there is a mutual Grant of that liberty of mind, without which it will not be preferved one moment. It is therefore by force apprehended that there is an Evan - gelical Juflification, upon our. Evangelical Perfonal Righteouf. nef. This they diftinguifh from that Juftification which is by Faith through the Imputation of the Righteoufnee of Chrift, in the fenf wherein they do allow it. For the Righteoufiiefs of Chrift is our Legal Righteoufnef, whereby we have pardon of fin, and acquitment from the fentence of the
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