Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

ANSWER I.

The question is not in the conclusion. If all be granted, its nothing for Mr. Blake's cause or against mine. It is not all one to conclude [those that are short of a faith that justifies have right] and [such a faith gives right] or is the qualification, condition, or evidence of right either. A man that is a Burgess of such a Corporation hath right to be Major. But his Burgesship gives him ⟨p. 176⟩not that right, but his election. A Frenchman hath right to the Crown of France, but not because he is a Frenchman. The Jew outwardly, Rom. 3. had not his right by a faith short of justifying; But he had first an actual abode among Ordinances, and the offers of Grace and helps to salvation, by free providential disposal of mercy. 2. The claim that he made to Church-privileges before men, must be upon his Professing of saving faith; viz. That he took the Lord only for his God, and believed in him according to the tenor of the Promise: and not upon the having or Professing of a faith of another Species.

The question is not in the conclusion. If all be granted, its nothing for Mr. Blake's cause or against mine. It is not all one to conclude [those that are short of a faith that •ustifies have right] and [such a faith gives right] or is the qualification, condition, or evidence of right either. A man that is a Burgess of such a Corporation hath right to be Major. But his Burgesship gives him ⟨p. 176⟩not that right, but his election. A Frenchman hath right to the Crown of France, but not because he is a Frenchman. The Jew outwardly,