J 98 The Trial and ' SEll. 18 fins, as we firt;i:;e them that fin againfl us : And Nathan faith to :Oavid, 2 Sam. xii. 1 3· ':lhe Lor-d alfo bath put aw~y tbry /in, thou. jhatt not die. :f?avid,· before he contratl«:d this ~orrible guilt of Murth~r and Adultery, was a Man according to, God's own Heart, anqfo his Perfon was jufiified ; this way God daily taketh away Sin, Rom. i. 1 7· For therein is tbe RigJJte.. oufnefs of God revealed from Faith to Faith, as it is written, the juf!.jhalt live by Faith. Now the ~ife o_f Faithju1hfyin~, is not one fingle ~a: ofFatth, iuch as Is, at our firft perfohal, relative & ·uriiverfal Abfolution ; but the Believer liv~th by renewed & often repeated ACls of Yaith,ft.tch a:t· '-1s TO waJkfromFaith to Faith : The.,leaft Faith, even the Minimum quod fie, doth juftifie, but the Gofpel requireth a growth in Faith. In this I • Se{lfe 'Remiffion is acontinued and one prorogated e .'Aft of free Grace, from our firft moment of believing,to the Day of putting the Crown on our Head. - If any Objec1 that I am contrary to myfelf, in that I fometimes did ~wite, that Juflijication is a plenary Pardon, in one indivijibJe .A8 ()fall fins, pafl, prejent, and to cGme, and therefore fin ·catJnot be ojtener than once pardoned. If I iliould anfwer, that the Knowledge we have, dpecially in {o fupernatural a Myfiery, is but the Twiligh~, or_ the Day-Stars gli:nmering of linful Men, It m1ght fuffice, but I judge that I fpeak nothing contrary to that. . . I -4./Jer. 3· ·For two for~al. Jufhfica~wns of~ Be,lJev<a'r I utterly deny, which ts that whtcbArmsnians prefs not a little; yea, & the J uftification of the Perfon, and his Acceptance in God's Favour \ is but one Act : I never fall from that Accept~mce once being in Court and Grace. I illuftrate it ' thus
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