in the Ep f les of S. Paul, &c. 463 would be no end of writing. One thing more I thall obferve and put an end unto our difcourfe on this Chapter. Verf 6, 7, 8. The Apoftle purfues his Argument to prove the freedom of our 7uflification by Faith, without refpe& unto Works, through the Imputation of Righteoufnefs in the inftance of pardon of Sin, which effentially belongeth. thereunto. And this he doth by the Teftimony of the Pfalmifi, who placeth the blef ednel of a man in the Re- miffion of Sins. His defign is not thereby to declare the full nature of juflifcation, which he had done before, but only to prove the freedom of it from any ref-pea unto Works in the inftance of that eft ntiaf part of it. Even as David alfo defcribeth the blef ednefs of the man unto whom God imputeth Righteoufnefs without Works (which was the only thing he defigned to prove by this Teftimony) faying, Bleffed are they ivhofe Iniquities are forgiven. He defcribes their bleffednefs by ir, not that their whole bleffednef Both confift therein; but this concurs unto it wherein no refpett can poffibly be had unto any Works whatever. And he may juftly from hence defcribe the blefednefs of a man, in that the Imputation of Righteoufnefs, and the Non -Impu- tation of Sin (both which the Apoftle mentioneth diftin- 111y) wherein his whole bleffednefs as unto Juftification doth confift, are infeparable. And becaufe Remiffion of sin is the firft part of Juftification, and the principal part of it, and hath the Imputation of Righteoufnefs always accompanying it, the bleffednefs of a man may be well defcribed thereby. Yea, whereas all Spiritual Bleffings go together in Chrift, Eph. z. 3. A mans blefl"ednefs may be defcribed by any of' them. But yet the Imputation of Righteoufnefs and the Remilfion of sin are not the fame, no more than Righte- oufnefs imputed, and Sin remitted are the fame. Nor doth the Apoftle propofe them as the fiime , but men - tioneth them diftinétly , both being equally neccfla-
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