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But what is a still more plain and direct Evidence of what I am now arguing for, is that that Act of Faith that Abraham exercised in the great Promise of the Covenant of Grace that God made to him, of which it is expressly said, Gen 15. 16. It was accounted to him for Righteousness; which is the grand Instance and Proof, that the Apostle so much insists upon throughout the 4th Chapter of Romans, and 3d. Chapter of Galatians, to confirm his Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone, was not Abraham's first A•• of Faith, but was ex••ted long after he had by Faith forsaken his own Country, Heb. 11. 8. and had been treated as an eminent Friend of God.

But what is a still more plain and direct Evidence of what I am now arguing for, is that that Act of Faith that Abraham exercised in the great Promise of the Covenant of Grace that God made to him, of which it is expresly said, Gen 15. 16. It was accounted to him for Righteousness; which is the grand Instance and Proof, that the Apostle so much insists upon throughout the 4th Chapter of Romans, and 3d. Chapter of Galatians, to confirm his Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone, was not Abraham's first A•• of Faith, but was ex••ted long after he had by Faith forsaken his own Country, Heb. 11. 8. and had been treated as an eminent Friend of God.

Moreover, The Apostle Paul in the third Chapter of Philippians, tells us how earnestly he sought Justification by Faith, or to win Christ and obtain that Righteousness which was by the Faith of him, in what he did after his Conversion. Verses 8, 9 For whom I have suffered the loss of all Things, and do count them but, Dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having on mine own Righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith. And in the two next Verses he expresses the same Thing in other Words, and tells us how e went through Sufferings, and became conformable to Christ's Death, that he might be a Partaker with Christ in the Benefit of his Resurrection; which the same Apostle elsewhere teaches us, is especially Justification: Christ's Resurrection was his Justification; in this, he that was put to Death in the Flsh, was justified by the Spirit, and he that was delivered for our Offences, rose again for our Justification. And the Apostle tells us in the Verses that follow, in that third Chapter of Philippians, that he thus fought to attain the Righteousness which is through the Faith of Christ, and so to partake of the Benefit of his Resurrection, still, as tho' he had not already attained, but that he continued to follow after it.