And that I may and must thus understand the Condemning Threatening, and the Justifying promise, to speak of one and the same faith, I am assured by this: because it is usual with God in scripture to imply the one in the other. As in the Law of works with perfect ma•, the promise was not expressed, but implied in the Threatening [In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die.] So in the Gospel the Threatening is oft implied in the promise [He that believeth shall not perish] When the Lord saith [The soul that sinneth shall die] It implieth that [the soul that sinneth not shall not die.] And though we cannot say the like of the prohibition of Eating the forbidden fruit, that is, because the same Law did on the same terms prohibit all other sin as well as it. And [in the day that thou sinnest, thou shalt die] doth imply [if thou sin not, thou shalt not die.] So [he that believeth, shall be saved,] doth imply, he that believeth not, shall be condemned. And so, If thou believe, thou shalt be justified, implieth, If thou believe not, thou shalt not be justified. If you consent not to this, you then must maintain that this Covenant excludeth not Infidels from salvation, the term only being not implied in the promise of pardon to Believers: But if you grant all this, (as sure you will) then it is most evident that Believing is taken in the same sense in the promise, and in the threatening: For no man breathing can tell me, either how a Promise to one kind of faith, can imply a threatening against the want of another kind or act of faith; or else what that other faith must be that is so implied, if not the same. And ⟨p. 43⟩if it be the same faith that is implied (which is a most evident truth) then it will follow, that if I prove the Threatened unbelief to be a Rejecting of Christ as King, the faith then that is made the condition of the promise, must be the accepting of him as King as well as Priest. But I have proved that not believing in Christ as King, is part of the unbelief that is specially threatened with condemnation: therefore believing in him as King is part of that faith which hath the promise, or is the Condition of Justification.
And that I may and must thus understand the Condemning Threatning, and the Justifying promise, to speak of one and the same faith, I am assured by this: because it is usual with God in scripture to imply the one in the other. As in the Law of works with perfect ma•, the promise was not exprest, but implyed in the Threatning [In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die.] So in the Gospel the Threatning is oft implyed in the promise [He that believeth shall not perish] When the Lord saith [The soul that sinneth shall die] It implyeth that [the soul that sinneth not shall not die.] And though we cannot say the like of the prohibition of Eating the forbidden fruit, that is, because the same Law did on the same terms prohibite all other sin as well as it. And [in the day that thou sinnest, thou shalt die] doth imply [if thou sin not, thou shalt not die.] So [he that believeth, shall be saved,] doth imply, he that believeth not, shall be condemned. And so, If thou believe, thou shalt be justified, implyeth, If thou believe not, thou shalt not be justified. If you consent not to this, you then must maintain that this Covenant excludeth not Infidels from salvation, the term only being not implyed in the promise of pardon to Believers: But if you grant all this, (as sure you will) then it is most evident that Believing is taken in the same sense in the promise, and in the threatning: For no man breathing can tell me, either how a Promise to one kind of faith, can imply a threatning against the want of another kind or act of faith; or else what that other faith must be that is so implyed, if not the same. And ⟨p. 43⟩if it be the same faith that is implyed (which is a most evident truth) then it will follow, that if I prove the Threatned unbelief to be a Rejecting of Christ as King, the faith then that is made the condition of the promise, must be the accepting of him as King as well as Priest. But I have proved that not believing in Christ as King, is part of the unbelief that is specially threatned werth condemnation: therefore believing in him as King is part of that faith which hath the promise, or is the Condition of Justification.
