The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

7. By this you glorify God exceedingly, as Abraham believed, Rom. 4. and gave glory unto God. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory, Isaiah 45.25. For,

7. By this you glorifie God exceedingly, as Abraham beleeved, Rom. 4. and gave glory unto God. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory, Esay 45.25. For,

1. By this you glorify him perfectly in an instant, for you continue to do all that the Law requires that instant you believe. The Apostle propounds the Question, Rom. 3.21. whether a Christian by faith doth make void the Law? No, saith the Apostle, but we establish the Law. How is that? Paraeus shows three ways: One is this, because that perfect righteousness which the Law requires of us, we perform it in Christ, by faith. So that in one instant thou continuest to do all that the Law requires, and hence ariseth the impossibility of a true Believers apostasy, as from one principal cause: They that deny satisfaction by Christs doing of the Law, because by our own works and doings we cannot be justified before God, may as well deny satisfaction by Christs sufferings, because by our own sufferings we cannot be justified; our obedience to the Law in way of suffering, is as truly the works of the Law, as our obedience in way of doing.

1. By this you glorifie him perfectly in an instant, for you continue to doe all that the Law requires that instant you beleeve. The Apostle propounds the Question, Rom. 3.21. whether a Christian by faith doth make void the Law? No, saith the Apostle, but we establish the Law. How is that? Paraeus shews three wayes: One is this, because that perfect righteousnesse which the Law requires of us, we performe it in Christ, by faith. So that in one instant thou continuest to doe all that the Law requires, and hence ariseth the impossibility of a true Beleevers apostacie, as from one principall cause: They that deny satisfaction by Christs doing of the Law, because by our own works and doings we cannot be justified before God, may as well deny satisfaction by Christs sufferings, because by our owne sufferings we cannot be justified; our obedience to the Law in way of suffering, is as truly the works of the Law, as our obedience in way of doing.