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

Argum. 2 If a true Believer have a justifying Faith after his first Justification, even as long as he liveth, then the Faith which Paul opposeth to works is not only one numerical Act (because that first Numerical Act doth not continue with us.) But the Antecedent is true, as appeareth 1. from the forementioned Instance of Abraham. 2, From the necessity of a continued Active Justification: For the Passive else would cease, and we should be unjustified. If God did not continue to forgive us, and still actively repute us just, and accept us as just and impute Righteousness to us, and his Gospel-Grant did not continually justify us, (as every Fundamentum continually causeth the Relation,) we should cease to be justified: And Gods active Justification continueth not without the continuance ⟨p. 404⟩of mans Actual or Habitual Faith: Otherwise he should justify an Infidel, and he should justify afterwards in another way, and on other terms then he did at first. 3. From the continued Efficacy of Christs Merits, Intercession and Covenant, which daily justify us. So that he that saith, that he was never justified but once at one moment, and by one numerical Act of Faith, must say that Christ was his Justifier actually but for a moment, and that he will not be beholden to him to justify him any more.

Argum. 2 If a true Believer have a justifying Faith after his first Justification, even as long as he liveth, then the Faith which Paul opposeth to works is not only one numerical Act (because that first Numerical Act doth not continue with us.) But the Antecedent is true, as appeareth 1. from the forementioned Instance of Abraham. 2, From the necessity of a continued Active Justification: For the Passive else would cease, and we should be unjustified. If God did not continue to forgive us, and still actively repute us just, and accept us as just and impute Righteousness to us, and his Gospel-Grant did not continually justifie us, (as every Fundamentum continually causeth the Relation,) we should cease to be justified: And Gods active Justification continueth not without the continuance ⟨p. 404⟩of mans Actual or Habitual Faith: Otherwise he should justifie an Infidel, and he should justifie afterwards in another way, and on other terms then he did at first. 3. From the continued Efficacy of Christs Merits, Intercession and Covenant, which daily justifie us. So that he that saith, that he was never justified but once at one moment, and by one numemerical Act of Faith, must say that Christ was his Justifier actually but for a moment, and that he will not be beholden to him to justifie him any more.