·:: 94 'ihe 'rrial and SER. IS c_}f.;e Lamb's :Bcok of Life containetl'l not only the Names of thofe who are ordained for that bldfed End of eternal Life, but alfo t~e Means leadjng to the End : Then here are wrmen all the Sms., all the Pardons ot free Grace lince the 6rft Adam finned: 0, but the Book of Life mull be a huge Volume! 0, how large, and broad, and long muff: the Accounts· of the Grace of Chrift be !. 2. We are not faved, completely, becaufe juil:ified ; b-ut Rom. viii. 23. we are Expecrants ot the Divinity , of immediate Vifion, and groan within ourjetves, ~ waiting for the Adoption, the Redemption of our. :Body ; V er. 24. and are faved b_y Hope. In regard ofTitle, 'we afe faved con'l.pletely ; l3ut! in another ' Senie we are but Lords and Kings in Title only ; we are far from the Lands, Rents, Crown, and our Father's Houfe, and fo are not f2.ved t.i'll our Feet H:and within the Streets of of the new .7eru.falem. 3· In this Con[tderati~n• we figh in our Fetters and Bolts, and,Sm remam-1 eth in us, for our Exe-rcife , and Humiliation, that we may have an habitual ,ingagement to .7cfos Chrifi a-nd his Grace; tbat Sout loveth much to who1n much ·is j01·given; and efpecially, when ' in Senfe and frequent Experiences ; much and multiplied Backflidings are forgiven. Obj. 1. :But _7ufUjication is one indh,ijible AB of Grace, pardoniny; all Sins,pajl;prifent, and to come, G is 11ot a fucc~ffive ana continued All, in Progrefs · always, .fuel;; as is San8ificarion; for we are but once juflified. I anfwer by thefe following Affertions : , . Affer: 1. There is a double Notion ofJuftific~,_ twn, ·as Dr. Abbot reacheth us : There 1s an nmver!~d, and , properly fo called, J uftifica rion : · There
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