nectOugi 5attU. and fo the. ob0 of Gods difplicentíal ha- tred, is now in a ffate of righteoufnefs, and fo the objet of Gods complacential love ; thus the Apoftle, you that were fometi,,zes ali- enated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now bath he reconciled, Col. 7.21. All the change was in the Coloffians, none in God, the Lord loveth the righteous, faith the Pfalmiff, Pfal. 146.8. as foon as a man be- comes righteous, the divine complacence Both embrace him, which it did not , could not before, becaufe there was no futable ob- jedt. Secondly, The fecond 2 ere is this , If juftiftcation be not an immanent eternal ait, what is the tranfient all by which Godjuftifreth a believer in this life ? Unto this much is not fpoken amongDivines, force fpeak of a fentence before the Angels, as if God did declare before them who is righteous ; but this I think is altogether un- fcriptural : others fpeak of a fentence in con - fcience, but this is but the manifeftation of juff lication. Let us lirft diftinguith of jufli- fication, and then anfwer. There is a double juftification , contitutive juftification , where - by God maketh us juft in this life ; fententi- a juftification, whereby God pronounces us juft at death and judgment. Conffitutive juftification is the foundation of fentential, for the true God will not pronounce us juft un- lefs we are fuch , and fentcntial juftiticticn is the compleature of conffitutive : For here tlre 207
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