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

And yet that no man may have a pretence of quarrelling about mere words, that hath a mind to it, let it still be remembered, that as the word [Justification] is used to signify the first making a man just that was unjust (relatively or qualitatively,) So I confess that God, that Christ, that the Covenant do justify us Universally but once (though particularly from particular sins often) And thus it is but one Act of Faith by which we are justified Relatively, and not the Habit at all. But as Justification is taken for the same Act continued (though the mutation on us be not ab eodem termino) so we are justified every moment, and have a justifying faith continually, and are justified by the Habit, at least as much as by the Act; and in some respect more. The Sun doth as truly Illuminate our part of the world all day after, as at Sun rising, and by the same Action or Emanation in kind: But as Illuminating is taken for turning night into day, or illuminating the dark world from its darkness, so it doth only illuminate it from break of day to Sun rising. Your Lease of your house or Land doth first make you a Tenant of no▪ Tenant at the first sealing and delivering: but it may by the same sort of action continue your Right till it expire, and so continue you a Tenant; And thus we are continually justified by God, by Christ, by the Covenant and by Faith.

And yet that no man may have a pretence of quarrelling about meer words, that hath a mind to it, let it still be remembred, that as the word [Justification] is used to signifie the first making a man just that was unjust (relatively or qualitatively,) So I confess that God, that Christ, that the Covenant do justifie us Universally but once (though particularly from particular sins often) And thus it is but one Act of Faith by which we are justified Relatively, and not the Habit at all. But as Justification is taken for the same Act continued (though the mutation on us be not ab eodem termino) so we are justified every moment, and have a justifying faith continually, and are justified by the Habit, at least as much as by the Act; and in some respect more. The Sun doth as truly Illuminate our part of the world all day after, as at Sun rising, and by the same Action or Emanation in kind: But as Illuminating is taken for turning night into day, or illuminating the dark world from its darkness, so it doth only illuminate it from break of day to Sun rising. Your Lease of your house or Land doth first make you a Tenant of no▪ Tenant at the first sealing and delivering: but it may by the same sort of action continue your Right till it expire, and so continue you a Tenant; And thus we are continually justified by God, by Christ, by the Covenant and by Faith.