in the Epifiles of St. Paul, &c. 465 6, áxx, ue t4gevoi cv rr+l ®6 . And not only fo, but we alfoglory in God; he excludes boafling in our felves, becaufe there is nothing in us to procure or promote our own Juftification. He allows it us, in God, becaufe of the eminency and excel- lency of the way and means of our Juftification, which in his Grace he bath provided. And the rq'vx,,ua or boaffing in God here allowed us, hath a peculiar refpear unto what the Apoftle had in profped further to difcourfe of puvov 6, and not only fo, includes what he had principally treated of be- fore, concerning our Juftification fo far, as it confitts in the pardon of fn. For although he doth fuppofe, yea, and men- tion the imputation of Righteoufneß allo unto us ; yet prin- cipally he declares our Juftification by the pardon of fin, and our freedom from condemnation, whereby all boafting in our felves, is excluded. But here he defigns a further pro - grefs, as unto that whereon our glorying in God, on a right and title freely given us unto eternal life, doth depend. And this is the Imputation of the Righteoufnefs and Obedience of Chrift unto the Juftification of life, or the reign ofGrace, through Righteoufnefs, unto eternal Life. Great complaints have been made by fome concerning the obfcurity of the difcourfe of the Apoftle in this place, by reafon of fundry Ellipfes, Antapodota, Hyperbata, and other Figures of Speech , which either are, or are feigned to be therein. Howbeit I cannot but think, that if Men acquaint- ed with the common principles of Chr ?ian Religion, and fenfible in themfelves of the nature and guilt of our original apoftafie from God , would without prejudice read 7310 nv 7" 7TSetox v ,ñc y Qñn, this place of the Scripture, they will grant that the defign of the Apoftle is to prove; that as the fin of .Adam was imputed unto all Men unto condemnaticn, fo the Rig- hteoufnefr and Obedience of Chrift is imputed unto all that believe unto the Juftification of life. The firm of it is given by Theodoret, Dial, 3. Vide, quonaodo quite Chrißi ji nt O o o Cum
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