3`p'o The ,F.ormal, ( u e of yufliptioi, Ninevites, fo ordinarily it precedeth true Caving Faith, anal Juftification thereby. ; Wherefore the neceffity hereof, is;.- no way weakened by the Do ±ring of. the Imputation, of, the Righteoufnefs of Chrift , yea it,. is .ftrengthened and made effe&ual thereby. For without it, in, the order. of the Gofpel,:. an. intereff,:therein..is not to be Attained., And this is that which in the,OldTef anent is fo often pro-, poled as the means and conditions of: turning away the Judg- ments and Punilhments threatned unto. fin. For it is true, andfñcere in its kind ; neither do the Sociniinsrequire any other Repentance unto Juftification. For as they deny true: Evangelical_.Repeniance, in all the efpecial caufes of it, fo that; which.may :,and::doth precede Faith in order of, nature, is all, that they require.. This,Objeecion therefore as,managed by them, is a Cauflefs vain<pretenee.: 2.. Juftifying Faith includeth in. jts nature the entireprin ciple of Evangelical Repentance, .fo, as that it is utterly im- poffible that atnata.fhöuld be ;a true Believer, and not at the fame inftant of time be. truly penitent. , And therefore are they fo frequently conjoined in the Scripture as one fimulta- necsra Duty. Yea the call of the Gofpel unto Repentance is a call to Faith,' .aéfing . it felf by . Répentance. So the Cole; Reafön of that Call_unto Repentance which the forgivenels, of ,fins: is annexed unto, (Act. 2. 38.) is the Propofal of the. ",l?ro ife which is the Obje± of. Faith, ver., 3.9 ' :Apd thole. Conceptions and Aleaions which a; man path about fin with. a forrow for it and Repentance of it, upon a legal Convic7ion;, beingenlivened and made Evangelical-by the Introdu Pion of Faith as ..a new Principle-,of them; and giving new Motives unto,tbent, slo becomeEvangelicàl;, fo is it that Faith íhould.,be without Repentance. Wherefore although thefiiyi Ad öf,Faith, , and,its only proper'exercife untó ftificatsion,.doth.refpat the Grace of God; in Chris and the way Of ._Salvation: by: hlm5 ás, propofed its the Prornife of tttq Gofpel, .,.
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