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A Virtual Accusation by the Law, which we have broken, and condemneth us, requireth a Justification, if there were no more. 2. The Glory of Christ's Merits, Righteousness and Grace, requireth a Justification of us, against our real Guilt. 3. And is not Satan the Accuser of the Brethren, and that before God? And did not his Malice so work against Job, though God contradicted him? It is certain, that sentential and apologetical Justification relates to Accusation (virtual or actual) and Condemnation. Who shall condemn us, it is God that justifieth us? And if we are not justified against false Accusations, we shall never be justified against any. But we all confess, that we are made righteous, efficiently by Grace, and constitutively by Righteousness, in despite of all Satan's true accusations, and against all our own unworthiness, ungodliness, (antecedently) and guilt; and that before all Works and Perseverance, save a true accepting Faith in Christ: But if we shall in judgment be decisively declared righteous, by that which constituteth us righteous; (of which, no knowing man herein can doubt, God judging all things truly as they are) then certainly will men by decisive declaration, be judged righteous, as being pardoned and adopted by the Merits of Christ, and qualified ⟨p. 34⟩by true Faith, Repentance and Obedience, for that Gift. XCII. They absurdly hold, that to be justified, as to the sincerity of our Faith, from the charge o• Hypocrisy, or unsoundness, it is not the Justification of the Person: A contradiction that I am ashamed to be long in confuting. Is it the Fa• and not the Person that is to be judged? Is it not as it is the Persons Faith? What is it to •• stifie his Faith, but to justify him to be a true •elieving Christian, and so to be an Heir of the Pr• mice: The necessary qualification of Faith ([…] •t be operative) is as truly a part of the condition of the Promises, as that Faith be Faith indeed▪ Indeed some sound Divines say, [That Faith justifieth us as sinners, and Works justifieth our Faith, as •c•us•d Believers.] But they never meant th by justifying our Faith, it ustieth not our Persons: