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

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?

Next, You object, [This is performed, before the person justified believes.] Answer. I have said enough to you of this already. (of Bapt. pag. 100.) I add this much: you must distinguish between the Physical act of making this Law, Promise, Covenant, Grant or Testament: and the Moral Agency of this Law, Grant or Testament once made. The former was before we Believed: but the later was not (properly and fully) till after. Do not all Philosophers and Divines in the world that meddle with it, tell you that this is usual with moral causes, that they may have all their absolute Entity and vim agendi, long before they produce their effects? and may be Actu primo, etsi non secundo effectum producente, in being long before. The Law that determineth of your right to your Possession, or that doth give a Reward to every man