2 18 Evangelical Per f nal Righteaufne f hereunto from the fuppofition of a fecond AflifiCation, or differing caufes of the beginning and continuation of yuflift- cation, hath been already difproved. 2. Juflification before God is a freedom and abfolution from a Charge before God, at leaft it is contained therein. And the Inftrument of this charge muft either be the Law or the Goßid. But neither the Law nor the Gofpel, do before God, or in the fight of God, charge true Believers with Unbelief, Hypocrifie, or the like. For who (ball lay any thing unto the charge of Gods Elea, who are once juftified before him ? Such a charge may be laid againft them by Sathan, by the Church fometimes on miftake, by the World, as it was in the cafe of fob, againft which this Righteoufnefs is pleadable. But what is charged immediately before God, is charged by God him- felf, either by the Law or the Gofpel ; and the Judgment of God is according unto Truth. If this charge be by the Law, by the Law we muff be juftified. But the plea of fincere Obe- dience will not juflifie us by the Law. That admits of none in fatisfa &ion unto its demands, but that which is compleat and °perfe &. And where the Goffrel lays any thing unto the charge of any Perfons before God, there can be no Juftifica- tion before God, unlefs we fhall allow the Gofpel to be the Inftrument of a falfe Charge. For what fhould juflifie him whom the Gofpel condemns ? And if it be a Juftification by the Gofpel from the charge of the Law, it renders the death of Chrift of no effe&. And a Juftification without a Charge, is not to be fuppofed. 3. Such a Juftification as that pretended, is altogether need - lefand of lefa This may eafily be evinced from what the Scripture allerts unto our Juftification in the fight of God by Faith in the Blood of Chrift. But this bath been fpoken to before on another occafion. Let that be confidered, and it will quickly appear, that there is no place nor ufe for this new Juftification upon our perfonal Righteoufnefs, whether it
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