in the Epifiks of St. Paul, &c. 5 13 is imputed unto us. Beúdes the aft of God, in making us righteous, is his juflifying of us. But this is not by the in- flation of the habit of Faith and Obedience, as we have pro- ved. And what aft of God is intended by them, who af- firm, That the Righteoufnefs of God which we are made, is our own Righteoufnefs, I know not. The con flitntion of the Gofpel Law it cannot be; for that makes no Man righte- ous. And the Perfons of Believers are the objec`k of this aft of God, and that as they are confidered in Chrift. Gal. 2.16. The Epifile of the fame Apoflle unto the Galatians, is wholly defigned unto the vindication of the Doctrine of Juftification by Chrift, without the Works of the Law, with the ufe and means of its improvement. The fum of his whole defign is laid down in the repetition of his words un- to the Apoflle Peter, on the occafion of his failure, there re- lated Chap. 2.86. Knowing that a Man is not juf ified_by the Works of the Law, bat by the Faith of jefuc Chrß, even we have believed on jefus Chr, that we might be juflified by the Faith of Chrifl', and not by the Works of the Law; for by the Works of the Law, (hall no flefh be juflified. That which he doth here aflèrt, was fuck a known, fuch a fundamental principle of Truth among all Believers, that their conviCion and knowledge of it, was the ground and occafion of their tranftion, and pang o ver from yudaifns unto the Gofpel and Faith in Yelps Chrifi thereby. And in the words the Apoftle determines that great in- quiry, how, or by what means a Man is, or may be juflified before God. The fubjeC fpoken of is expreffed indefinitely; A Man, that is, any Man, a yew, or a Gentile, a Believer, or an unbeliever. The Apoftle that fpake, and they to whom he fpake; the Galatians to whom he wrote, who allo for U u u Tome
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