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2. But as to the subordinate part of Justification, against the fal•e charge that we are no believers, nor repent, and so have no part in Christ; here our own Faith is the very Matter of Righteousness by which we must be in tantum so far• justified: As truth and innocency is against every false accusation: And to say that because Christs Merits justify us not before and without our Faith and performance of the Condition, therefore our Act justifieth us more than Christ, or efficiently at all, is a thing unworthy of an answer, being below the thoughts of an intelligent Disputer. How much the capacity or incapacity of the Receiver doth as to all the various changes in the world, both physical and moral, when yet efficiently it doth nothing, is not wholly unknown to any sober thinking man. As the same sun-shine maketh a Weed stink, and a Rose sweet; so the same Act of Oblivion, or conditional Justifying Law or Covenant, doth justify the capable, and not the uncapable, though no mans Faith doth effect any part of his own Justification. Mr. Troughton, and such others denying Faith to be the Condition of our Justification by the Promise, hath drawn me to speak the largelier of this.

2. But as to the subordinate part of Justification, against the fal•e charge that we are no believers, nor repent, and so have no part in Christ; here our own Faith is the very Matter of Righteousness by which we must be in tantum so far• justified: As truth and innocency is against every false accusation: And to say that because Christs Merits justifie us not before and without our Faith and performance of the Condition, therefore our Act justifieth us more than Christ, or efficiently at all, is a thing unworthy of an answer, being below the thoughts of an intelligent Disputer. How much the capacity or incapacity of the Receiver doth as to all the various changes in the world, both physical and moral, when yet efficiently it doth nothing, is not wholly unknown to any sober thinking man. As the same sun-shine maketh a Weed stink, and a Rose sweet; so the same Act of Oblivion, or conditional Justifying Law or Covenant, doth justifie the capable, and not the uncapable, though no mans Faith doth effect any part of his own Justification. Mr. Troughton, and such others denying Faith to be the Condition of our Justification by the Promise, hath drawn me to speak the largelier of this.