96 The Formal Cau of Yu flißcation the like may be Paid of many other Expreiions of the like nature. These things being premifed, I proceed unto the confide- ration, of the general ohjeE ions that are urged againft the Im- putation=we plead 'for. And I thall infift only on fome of the principal of them, and whereinto all others may be re- folved ; for it were endless to go over all that any mans In- vention can fuggeftunto him of this kind. And fome gene- ral confiderations-we niuft take''along with us herein. 'As, z. The Doi-trine of Jufification is a part, yea an eminent part of the myf ery of the Goff el. It is no marvel therefore if it be not fo expofèd unto the common notions of Reafon, as force would have it to be. There is more required unto the true spiritual underftanding of fuch myfteries -5-yea un- lefs we intend to renounce the G if f el, icniuft be 'alerted, that Reafon as it is corrupted, and then find of man deftitute of Divine fupernatural Revelation, do diflike'every fuch Truth, . and rife up in Enmity againft it. So the Scripture direEtly affirms, am4,-.8 74 i. Cor. 2 14. 2.. fence are the Minds and Inventions of' men wònderfäl fertile in coyning Ob}eCtions againft EvangelicalTruths, and raifìng _cavils againft them. -,Seldom to this purpofe do they want an endlefs,nùmber of fophif ical ObjeClions, which be- caufe they know no better, they theunfelves judge infoluble. For carnal_ - Reafon being once set at liberty under the falfe notion of Truth, toe& it felf freely and boldly againft tual myfieries, is fubtile in its arguin'gs, and pregnant in its Invention of them. -How endle f?, for inftance, 'are . the So- phifms of .the`Solinians againft the Marine -of the Trinity, and how do= theytriumph in them`as unanfwerable. Under the Ihelter of them they defpife the force of the molt evident Teftitnonies of the Scripture, and those multiplied on all occafions. In likernanner they deal with the Do&rine'of the fatis faílioñ :of Chrifl, as the Pelugians Of 'old did with that of his
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