the ature and V fe of it. 2 19 it be fuppofed antecedent and fubordinate thereunto, or con - fequential and perfeaive thereof 4. This pretended Evangelical 7ufification path not the Nature of any Juftification that is mentioned in the Scri- pture ; that is, neither that by the Law, nor that provided in the Gofpel. Juftification by the Law is this ; The man that doth the Works of it full live in them. This it doth not pre- tend unto. And as unto Evangelical Juflification, it is every way contrary unto it. For therein the Charge againft the perfon to be juftified is true ; namely, that he bath finned, and is come {fort of the Glory of God. In this it is falf, namely, that a Believer is an Unbeliever ; A fincere P.er on an Hypocrite, one fruitful in good Works, altogether barren. And this falfe charge is fuppofed to be exhibited in the name of God, and before him. Our Acquitment in true Evange- lical 7uflification is by Abfolution or pardon of fin ; here by a Vindication of our own Righteoufne. There the plea of the perfon to be juflified is, Guilty, all the World is become guilty before God ; but here the plea of the perfon on his Trial is not Guilty, whereon the proofs and evidences of In- nocency and Righteoufnefs do enfue; But this is a Plea which the Law will not admit, and which the Gofpel dif- claims. 5. If we are juflified before God on our own perfonal Righteoufnefs, and pronounced Righteous by him on the ac- count thereof; then God enters into Judgment with to on fomething in our felves, and acquits us thereon. For Juftifi- cation is a juridical A l in and of that Judgment of God which is according unto Truth. But that God fhould enter into Judgment with us, and juftifie us with refpe&l unto what he judgeth on, or our perfonal Righteoufnefs, the Pfalmifl doth not believe, Pfal. 130. 2, 3. Pfal. 143. 2. nor did the Publican, Luke 18. 6. This perfonal Righteoufnefs of ours cannot be raid to F 2 be
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