2. And as the benefits given, so the manner of the Laws giving must needs be observed: Which is, 1. By imperfect Collation, not ipso facto, presently making the thing our own, which is, 1. When the gift is conditional, suspended on some Condition: And only thus doth the Law or Covenant give Pardon, Justification, Adoption, with all that Right to real Mercy before mentioned; to all men, Elect or not Elect before they believe. 2. Or when the thing is given only in Diem. And so Right to a Resurrection is given to all. 2. Or else the Law makes a perfect Collation, and that is, 1. When it gives the Benefit absolutely and presently: So that Christ freed men from the Law of Works and Ceremonies, so far as is before expressed. 2. Or when it actually confers that Benefit after the performance of the Condition, which before was but Conditionally Given. For it was the will of the Legislator that the actual Gift should be suspended on that Condition; and therefore though the Nature of the Law change not upon that performance of the Condition, yet it then begins Moraliter Efficariter agere, which it did not before. And thus the Law of Grace gives actual Pardon, Adoption, and Right to glory, to men as soon as they sincerely believe. And here begin the Effects of Christs death in Law sense, to be peculiar to some; when they perform the conditions which others do not (which condition Christ giveth not as Legislator.) All that we have spoke till now, was common to Non-elect. Thus we ⟨p. 17⟩have showed what the Law gives by its Essentials. 2. By the Integrals or Accidentals (which you will call them) of this new Law; (for Laws use to have Preambles, Narratives, &c. to inform men of the ground, occasion, and end of them:) Christ doth, 1. Give all men that hear it information or objective discovery of whatsoever is necessary to be known for attaining the foresaid benefits: As of God, Christ, his Nature, Office, Works, &c. 2. He giveth them potent Reasons, Motives, Persuasions, Exhortations, Threatenings, &c. to work upon their Wills. And both these are Grace and sufficient in suo genere. Having showed what Christ giveth as Legislator, it followeth, 2. That we show what he giveth in Execution of these Laws. And that is, 1. In this Life, as was promised. 2. After, 1. At Death and by Resurrection, 2. By Judgment, 1. By Sentence, where as Judge, 1. He Justifieth all Believers, 2.
2. And as the benefits given, so the manner of the Laws giving must needs be observed: Which is, 1. By imperfect Collation, not ipso facto, presently making the thing our own, which is, 1. When the gift is conditional, suspended on some Condition: And only thus doth the Law or Covenant give Pardon, Justification, Adoption, with all that Right to real Mercy before mentioned; to all men, Elect or not Elect before they believe. 2. Or when the thing is given only in Diem. And so Right to a Resurrection is given to all. 2. Or else the Law makes a perfect Collation, and that is, 1. When it gives the Benefit absolutely and presently: So that Christ freed men from the Law of Works and Ceremonies, so far as is before expressed. 2. Or when it actually confers that Benefit after the performance of the Condition, which before was but Conditionally Given. For it was the will of the Legislator that the actual Gift should be suspended on that Condition; and therefore though the Nature of the Law change not upon that performance of the Condition, yet it then begins Moraliter Efficariter agere, which it did not before. And thus the Law of Grace gives actual Pardon, Adoption, and Right to glory, to men as soon as they sincerely believe. And here begin the Effects of Christs death in Law sence, to be peculiar to some; when they perform the conditions which others do not (which condition Christ giveth not as Legislator.) All that we have spoke till now, was common to Non-elect. Thus we ⟨p. 17⟩have shewed what the Law gives by its Essentials. 2. By the Integrals or Accidentals (which you will call them) of this new Law; (for Laws use to have Preambles, Narratives, &c. to inform men of the ground, occasion, and end of them:) Christ doth, 1. Give all men that hear it information or objective discovery of whatsoever is necessary to be known for attaining the foresaid benefits: As of God, Christ, his Nature, Office, Works, &c. 2. He giveth them potent Reasons, Motives, Perswasions, Exhortations, Threatnings, &c. to work upon their Wills. And both these are Grace and sufficient in suo genere. Having shewed what Christ giveth as Legislator, it followeth, 2. That we shew what he giveth in Execution of these Laws. And that is, 1. In this Life, as was promised. 2. After, 1. At Death and by Resurrection, 2. By Judgment, 1. By Sentence, where as Judge, 1. He Justifieth all Believers, 2.
