in' the Epifiles of St. Paul,. bc. 5.3 ( r. ) feparating the things that God hath made infepa- °table, There are our Juftification and our San&ification. To fuppofe that the one of thefe may be without the other, is to overthrow the whole Gofpel, (2 ) In compounding thofe things that are diftin&t, namely, Juftification and eternal a&ual Salvation ; the refpe& of Works and Obedience being not the fame unto them both, as hath been dedared. Wherefore this Imagination that the commands of God unto Duty ; However given, and unto what ends foever, are not equally obligatory unto the Confciences of. Believers, as if they were all given in order unto their Juftification before God, is atì abfurd figment, and which all of them who are truly fo, defie. Yea they have a greater power upon them, than they Mould have, if theDuties required in them were in order un- to their Juftification and fo were antecedent thereunto. For thereby they muff be fuppofed to have their efficacy upon -them before they truly believe. For to fay, that a man may be a true Believer, or truly believe, in anfwer unto the com- mands of the Gofpel, and not to be thereon, in the fame in- [tant of time abfolutely jufified , is not to difpute about -any point of Religion, but plainly to deny the whole truth of the Gofpel. But it is Faith alone that gives power and -efficacy unto Gofpel Commands, effe&ually to influence the Soul unto Obedience. Wherefore this Obligation is more powerfully conftraining, as they are given unto thofe that are juftified, then if they were given them in order unto their Juftification. Secondly, The Apoftle anfwers, as we do alto, Do we then mare void the Law through Faith ? God forbid ; . yea we efla- blifb the Law. For although the Law is principally eftablifh- ed in and by the Obedience and Sufferings of Chrift, Rom. 8. 3, 4. Chap. io. 3, 4. Yet is _ it not, by the Doctrine of Faith and the Imputation . of the Righteoufnefs o f Chrift unto the Juftification of life, made void as unto Believers, B b b b Nei-
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