The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

(1) There is the Life of Justification. Therein the Just by Faith do live; as freed from the Condemnatory Sentence of the Law. So the Righteousness of one comes on all that believe unto the Justification of Life, Rom. 5.18. It gives unto Believers a Right and Title to Life; for they that receive the abundance of Grace, and the Gift of Righteousness shall reign in Life by one Christ Jesus, vers. 17. This is not the Life here intended, for this Life depends solely on the Sovereign Grace of God, by Jesus Christ, and the Imputation of his Righteousness unto us, unto Pardon, Right to Life and Salvation.

(1) There is the Life of Justification. Therein the Just by Faith do live; as freed from the Condemnatory Sentence of the Law. So the Righteousness of one comes on all that believe unto the Justification of Life, Rom. 5.18. It gives unto Believers a Right and Title to Life; for they that receive the abundance of Grace, and the Gift of Righteousness shall reign in Life by one Christ Jesus, vers. 17. This is not the Life here intended, for this Life depends solely on the Soveraign Grace of God, by Jesus Christ, and the Imputation of his Righteousness unto us, unto Pardon, Right to Life and Salvation.

(2) There is a Life of Sanctification. As Life in the foregoing sense in opposed unto Death spiritual as unto the the Guilt of it, and the condemnatory Sentence of Death ⟨p. 321⟩wherewith it was accompanied; so in this it is opposed unto it, as unto its internal Power on, and Efficacy in the Soul, to keep it under an Impotency unto all Acts of Spiritual Life, yea, an Enmity against them. This is that Life wherewith we are quickened by Christ Jesus, when before we were dead in Trespasses and Sins, Ephes. 2.1, 5