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Sect. 3. Here he falls into down-right Popery, confounding those two great benefits of Justification and Sanctification, which (tho' inseparable) are to be distinguished. All Protestant Writers of Controversies against papists, have abundantly Confuted this mistake, only he will force us in the Sequel to make some brief Remarks on this matter.

Sect. 4. One Error begets another: a false principle will afford mistakes for Deductions; and here we see it: he took Justification and Sanctification for one thing, and so he tells us, that God justifies not only by faith in Christ, but by a real inward righteousness too: though Paul thought that these two ways of having a justifying Righteousness were inconsistent ⟨p. 105⟩Rom. 11.6. but herein he follows his Fathers the Papists; and whereas he says That The graces of Sanctification are the instruments of obtaining Justification from Christ; he mistakes the order of Christ's Benefits; for its certain that there is none of these graces in the man habitually, much less the Exercise of them, before Justification: for, in & with the souls applying it self to Christ by Faith, it is justified; and it is to be remembered that Paul tells us, it is the justification of the ungodly, Rom. 4.5. Such God finds them in themselves, when He comes to justify them. And when he saith, Jesus Christ cannot be applied to men for justification, unless the man be made righteous; its either a Contradiction or a Sophism. If they be made righteous for their justification, the Application of Christ for their Righteousness •s superfluous: If he intends, that the Application of Justification makes them righteous, it is fallacious: it makes them so in […] Law sense, but not in a moral sense, not justification, but Sanctification doeth that: •is Similitude is from that which hath no likeness; his Scripture Citations are not to •he purpose, that in