a 5 o The Idtîír u o° u i cation as declared unto this end. It is replied, that there is no intimation that is by faith alone, or that Faith is afïerted to be the means of our Juftification exclufively unto other Graces or Works. But there is fuch an exclufion directly included in the defcrip- tion.given of that faith whereby we are juftified with refpect unto its efpecial object by faith in his blood. For Faith refpe- c`ting the blood of Chrift, as that whereby propitiation was made for Sin, in which refpect alone, the Apoftle affirms that we are jufiified through faith, admits of no affociation with any other Graces or Duties. Neither is it any part of their nature to fix on the blood of Chrili, for Juftification before God: wherefore they are all here direaly excluded. And thofe who think otherwife, may try how they can introduce them into this context without an evident corrupting of it, and perverting of its fenfe. Neither will the other evafion yield our Adverfaries the leaft relief: namely , that by faith not the Jingle grace of Faith is intended, but the whole obe- dience required in the new Covenant, Faith and Works toge- ther. For as all works whatever, as our works, are excluded in the declaration of the caufes of our Juftification on the part of God ahgsaivzñ ¿ e7t freely by his grace, by vertue of that great Rule, Rom. T i. 6. If it be of grace, then no more of works, otherwife Grace is no more Grace; fo the determination of the objetl of faith in its at or duty where- on we are juftified, namely the blood of Chrift is abfolutely exclufive of all Works from an intereft in that duty. For whatever looks unto the blood of Chri.ff, for Juftification, is faith and nothing elfe. And as for the calling of it a Jingle a or duty, Irefer the Reader unto our pieceding difcourfe about the nature of juftifying Faith. Three things the Apoftle inferreth from the declarationhe had made of the Nature and Gaules of our Juftification be- fore God, all of them further illuftrating the meaning and fenfe of his words. t. That
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