in the Epifiles of St. Paït &c. 449 Being juffified & çl:á,v, fo the LXX. render the Hebrew par- ticle =2r1; without price , without merit , without caufe ; and fometimes it is ufed for without end, that is, what is done in vain; as .Ngeciv is ufed by the Apofl:le, Gal. 2.21. without price or reward, Gen. 29. 15. Exod. 21.22. 2 Kings 24.25. without caufe or merit or any means of procurement, 1 Bain. 19. 5. 2 lain. 24. 24. Pfal. 69. 4. Pfal. 102. la this fenfe it is rendred by dk v, joh.15.2 5. The defign of the word is to exclude all confideration of any thing in us that Ihould be the caufe or condition of our juflification.ets; favour, abfolutely confidered may bave refpeer unto fome- what in him towards whom it is (hewed; fo it is laid that 7ofeph found grace or favour ktlew in the eyes of Potiphar, Gen. 29.4. but he found it not d ,Qtiày, without any confident- lion or caule ; for he faw that the Lord was with hint and made all that he did to profper in his hand, v. 3. But no words can be found out to free our juil ification before God from all re- fpett unto any thing in our felves, but only what is added exprefly as the means of its participation on our part, through faith in his blood, more emphatical than thefe here ufed by the Apoftle; A/QUIP 7I äv1x x«.Q,1i; freely by his grace. And with whom this is not, admitted as exclufive of all Works or Obe- dience of our own, of all conditions, preparations and merit, I (hall defpair ofever expreffing my conceptions about it intelligibly unto them. Having afferted this Righteoufnef of God as the caufe and means of our ju(íifcation before him, in oppoution unto all Righteoufnefs''of our own ; and declared the caule of the communication oftit unto us on the part of God, to be weer free sovereign grace, the means on our part, whereby accord- ing unto the ordination of God, we do receive, or are really made partakers of that Righteoufnefs of God whereon we are juftified, is by faith; d1á777ç'rrçrcvç CAP duitätn.7ni that is by faith alone. Nothing elfe is propofed, nothing elfe required M m m unto
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