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Therefore your next inference that Paul spea• eth ⟨p. 108⟩of that which was not ours before Imputation, is not true, as is proved.

And your second that the imputation of Faith as a work, is not of Grace, is cloudy, or untrue, or both. If by a work, you mean a work in Commutation obliging God, or any work which maketh the reward to be of debt and not of Grace, it's true that if faith were such a work it would be an act of Justice so to judge it. But Faith is no such work; and therefore it would be error so to judge it. But if by a work you mean but a Moral act, as made by the Law of Grace the condition of pardon and life, then to Impute, Repute or Judge it to be what it is so made, is an act of Truth and Justice, but such Truth and Justice as is Evangelical, and consistent with Grace, and is founded on Grace: It is Grace, that we have a Saviour to purchase and give all: It is grace that we are not under the Law of Innocency which justifieth none but the innocent and perfect that never sinned: It is Grace that we have a Covenant and Law of Grace, which maketh sincere faith a Mediate or Subordinate Righteousness, requiring no more at our own hands instead of what the Law of innocency required: It is of Grace that as this faith is the matter of this subordinate Evangelical Righteousness, so it is the receptive medium of our right to Christ, pardon and life which is our full saving righteousness. It being therefore of Grace that it is made so, and also that we are made believers, it must be of Grace, though of Truth and gracious Justice, that it is reckoned or imputed to us, for Righteousness.

And your second that the imputation of Faith as a work, is not of Grace, is cloudy, or untrue, or both. If by a work, you mean a work in Commutation obliging God, or any work which maketh the reward to be of debt and not of Grace, it's true that if faith were such a work it would be an act of Justice so to judge it. But Faith is no such work; and therefore it would be errour so to judge it. But if by a work you mean but a Moral act, as made by the Law of Grace the condition of pardon and life, then to Impute, Repute or Judge it to be what it is so made, is an act of Truth and Justice, but such Truth and Justice as is Evangelical, and consistent with Grace, and is founded on Grace: It is Grace, that we have a Saviour to purchase and give all: It is grace that we are not under the Law of Innocency which justifieth none but the innocent and perfect that never sinned: It is Grace that we have a Covenant and Law of Grace, which maketh sincere faith a Mediate or Subordinate Righteousness, requiring no more at our own hands instead of what the Law of innocency required: It is of Grace that as this faith is the matter of this subordinate Evangelical Righteousness, so it is the receptive medium of our right to Christ, pardon and life which is our full saving righteousness. It being therefore of Grace that it is made so, and also that we are made believers, it must be of Grace, though of Truth and gracious Justice, that it is reckoned or imputed to us, for Righteousness.