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

Yea, That its a condition having necessity ad finem, is evident. First, Because it is the modus promissionis imposed on us by God as Promiser in a conditional form of words, as necessary to our attaining of the benefit promised. [If thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved, Rom. 10.9. If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you, &c.] Mat. 64.15. Secondly, And it is not of Physical necessity; for then God could not save us without it, but by a Miracle. Whereas he saved men before Christ by believing in a Messiah in general, without believing that this Jesus is he, and without believing that he was actually conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, buried, rose again, ascended, &c. And he saveth Infants, that themselves believe not at all; so that when you say it is a qualification of the subject, you mean either [the subject as justified] and that is nothing to the business: for then the question is not what Relation ⟨p. 132⟩our actions have to that which is past, but to that which is future. Or else you mean the subject as to be Justified at Judgement, or here to be so continued. And then the question still remaineth, whether those qualifications are means or no means? And if means, of what sort, if not conditions?

Yea, That its a condition having necessity ad finem, is evident. First, Because it is the modus promissionis imposed on us by God as Promiser in a conditional form of words, as necessary to our attaining of the benefit promised. [If thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved, Rom. 10.9. If you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you, &c.] Mat. 64.15. Secondly, And it is not of Physical necessity; for then God could not save us without it, but by a Miracle. Whereas he saved men before Christ by believing in a Messiah in general, without beliveing that this Jesus is he, and without believing that he was actually conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, buried, rose again, ascended, &c. And he saveth Infants, that themselves believe not at all; so that when you say it is a qualification of the subject, you mean either [the subject as justified] and that is nothing to the business: for then the question is not what Relation