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The last Time I was upon the Sixth general Argument, which was taken from the Nature of that sacred, high, and sublime Union which is between Christ and every true Believer.

The last Time I was upon the Sixth general Argument, which was taken from the Nature of that sacred, high, and sublime Vnion which is between Christ and every true Believer.

I shall proceed to the next Argument.

Seventhly, The Argument which I shall now insist on and produce ¹further, to prove this great and comfortable Doctrine, shall be taken from the Death of Jesus Christ: For it is indeed, I find, that great Argument the Apostle makes use of to prove the final Perseverance of the Saints, or Elect of God. See Rom. 8. 33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the Charge of God's Elect? It is God that justifieth. Who can implead such, or put in an Accusation against them, that shall be heard, admitted, or allowed at God's Bar? He brings in four or five Reasons why none can. (1.) From their Election; they are God's Elect. (2.) Their Justification; they are actually justified, they are acquitted, declared Righteous in Christ, and that by God himself: It is God that justifieth. If the Supreme Judg, he whom they have offended, doth acquit and discharge them, who shall bring in any Accusation against them? To which he adds, ver. 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died. Such a One (as our Annotators note) may throw down the Gauntlet, and challenge all the Enemies in the World; let Conscience, carnal Reason, the Law, Sin, Hell, the Flesh and Devils, bring forth all they can say, and show what they can do, yet after all they cannot