42 The nature of Yufi (cation, as declared him, we have adoption, juftification, freedom from judgment and condemnation, with n right and title unto Eternal Life: That thofe who believe not, are condemned already, becaufé they believe not on the son of God ; and as he elfwhere expreffeth it, make God a lier, in that they believe not his Teftimony, namely, That he hath given unto us Eternal Life; and that this life is in his Son. Nor doth he any where make mention of any other means, caufe, or condition of Juftification on our part, but Faith only, though he aboundeth in Precepts unto Believers for Love, and keeping the commands of Chrift. And this Faith is the receiving of Chris' , in the fenfe newly declared. And this is the fubftance of the Chri- ftian Faith in this matter; which oft -times we rather obfcure then illuftrate, by debating the confederation of any thing in our Juftification but the Grace and Love of God, the Perfon and Mediation of Chrift, with Faith in them. CHAP. XVIII.` The nature of yuflifacation as declared in the Epifilef of S. Paul, in that unto the Ro- mans efeciall.y. Chap. 3.. Hat the way and manner of our Juftificatíon before God, with all the Caufes and Means of it are defign- edl:y declared by the Apoile in the Epiflle unto the Romans, Chap. 3.4,5. as alfa vindicated from Objeâions, fo as to render his difcourfe thereon thê proper Seat of this Doctrine, arid whence it is principally to be learned, cannot modeftly be
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