5 5 2 The nature of u i catiön, as declared of the Apoffïe about our Juftification, bath been before de- clared. And if we are juttified freely through Faith in the Blood of Chrift, that Faith which bath the Propitiation of Chrift for its. efpecial Object, or as it bath fo, can take no other Grace nor Duty into Partnerfhip with it felf therein : and being fo juf ified as that all fuch boafling is excluded as necefiarily exults from any differencing Graces or Works in our felves, wherein all the Works of the Law are excluded, it is certain that it is by Faith alone in Chrift that we are juftified. All Works are not only excluded , but the way unto their return is fo flint up by the Method of the Apo- files DiCcourfe , that all the reinforcements which the wit of man can give unto them, will never introduce them into our Juftification before God. 3. He afferts from Bence , that we do not make void the Law through grace , but eftablifh it , v. 3 r. which how it is done, and how alone it can be done, hath been before declared. This is the Subftance of the Refolution the Apoftle gives unto that great Enquiry, how a guilty convinced Sinner may come to be juftified in the fight of God. The fovereign Grace of God, the Mediation of Chrift, and Faith in the Blood of Chrift, are all that he requìreth thereunto. And whatever notions men, may have about Juftification in other re- fpeCts, it will .not be Cafe to venture on any other Refolution of this cafe and enquiry; nor are we wirer than the Ho- ly Ghoft Rom. Chap. 4. In the beginning of the fourth chapter he confirms what he had before doárinally declared, by a fignal inftance 5 and this. was of the Juflifi'cation of Abraham, who being the Father of the Faithful, his Juftification is propofed as the pattern of ours , as he exprefly declares verf 22, 23, 24. And,
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