Of justification four disputations clearing and amicably defending the truth against the unnecessary oppositions…

You say, [This is but Virtual Justification] which is in Law Title. Answ. 1. It is Actual Constitutive Justification, and not Virtual only 2. But it is indeed but Virtual sentential justification. But yet it is of the highest kind of Virtuality. It is that which makes us rectos in curia, (which I take to be the nature of our Justification in this life.) And taken divisi•, it seemeth more excellent in some respect, then the sentence or declaration it self; for he that by Purchase first, and Pardon (written) ⟨p. 336⟩after, maketh Offenders just in Law,) i. e. (non obligatos ad poenam,) seemeth to do more for them by that act, then after by pronouncing them just. Though yet this last I know is the most perfect Justification, taken conjunctim with the rest, as the end to which they tend, and as that which giveth them their full effect.

Your next Objection is, that this Gospel Justification, [is general and indeterminate to particular persons] Answer. It cannot be more certain or effectual. For when it is to all, no man hath reason to think himself excepted (who excludes not himself by non-performance of the conditions.) Every particular man is comprised in All. And for the determination, the Description of the person is as certain a way as the naming of him. To give Christ and his Righteousness to All that will receive him, is as effectual a determinate Gift to each particular Receiver, as to give him to Peter, Paul, John by name. If a Pardon be proclaimed, or given in the Laws, to all Offenders that perform such a condition; is it not as effectual to each person, as if he were named? If a Father bequeath such Lands or Monies to all his Children (or a man to all the poor in the town) on condition that they come by such a day to such a place, and signify their acceptance and gratitude: is not this as sure and good, as if they were all named?

Your next Objection is, that this Gospel Justification, [is general and indeterminate to particular persons] Answer. It cannot be more certain or effectual. For when it is to all, no man hath reason to think himself excepted (who excludes not himself by non-performance of the conditions.) Every particular man is comprized in All. And for the determination, the Description of the person is as certain a way as the naming of him. To give Christ and his Righteousness to All that will receive him, is as effectual a determinate Gift to each particular Receiver, as to give him to Peter, Paul, John by name. If a Pardon be proclaimed, or given in the Laws, to all Offenders that perform such a condition; is it not as effectual to each person, as if he were named? If a Father bequeath such Lands or Monies to all his Children (or a man to all the poor in the town) on condition that they come by such a day to such a place, and signifie their acceptance and gratitude: is not this as sure and good, as if they were all named?