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IV. Your fourth sort of Imputation ex merâ gratiá you say is the imputing of that which before that act we had no right to: And you do well to say there is no other instance of it in Scripture: But you do not well to say without proof that this is it that's meant, Rom. 4. God maketh us Righteous by donation before he imputeth it to us: Imputation there is Reckoning, Accounting, and Judging a man to be what he is. Abraham had Faith before God imputed Faith to him for Righteousness: And that Faith was such a Righteousness as God imputed it to be. To say, it was an imperfect one, is no wonder: Abraham had none personally or properly in se but what was imperfect.

IV. Your fourth sort of Imputation ex merâ gratiá you say is the imputing of that which before that act we had no right to: And you do well to say there is no other instance of it in Scripture: But you do not well to say without proof that this is it that's meant, Rom. 4. God maketh us Righteous by donation before he imput•th it to us: Imputation there is Reckoning, Accounting, and Judging a man to be what he is. Abraham had Faith before God imputed Faith to him for Righteousness: And that Faith was such a Righteousness as God imputed it to be. To say, it was an imperfect one, is no wonder: A••aham had none personally or properly in se but what was imperfect.

The sum of all our Controversy is, what Righteousness believers have? You before noted that Righteousness as it is a conformity to the ••eceptive part of the Law, is one thing, and as it relateth to the retributive part, and is our Jus impunitatis & vitae it is another. The Doctrine which I bend all these words against is, that we must have, or have, as our own any such ⟨p. 107⟩