The Formal Caul of Yuflification. -2 89 a late Writer, who reckoning up how many things the Lord Chrift did in our ítead, adds as the fenfe thereof, that is to be. lead of ; then which if he can invent any thing more fond andfenfelef , he hath a fingular faculty in fuch an Em- ployment. CHAP. I X. The formal caufe of yul flcation or, The Righteoufnefs on the Account whereof Believers are juflified before God. Objecfi- ons anfwered. THeprincipal differences about the Doétriné of Jiittifi- cation are' reducible unto three Heads. ( ) The na- ture of it ; namely, whether it confift in an internal change of the Perlon juftified by the infufion of an Habit of inhe- rent Grace or Righteoufnefs ; or whether it be a Foren(ck Aíl, in the jiídgiing, eíteeming, declaring, and `pronouncing fuch a perfon to be Righteous, thereon abfolving him from all his fins, giving unto him Right and Title unto` life. Here- in we have to do only with thofe of the Church of Rome, all others, both Protefiants and Socinians being agreed on the Forenrckfenfe of the word, and the nature of the thing fignified thereby. And this I have already fpoken unto, fo, far as our prefent defign doth require, and that I hope with fuch evidence of Truth, as cannot well be gainfayed. Nor may it be fuppofedthat we have too long infified thereon, as an opinion which is obfolete, and long fence fidciently con- P p futed
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