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 led by the Minitry of the Word, and may have ome common operations of the Spirit , yet they never truely come unto Chrt, and therefore cannot be aved : much lee can men, not proeing the Chriian Religion, be aved in any other way whatoever, bee they never o diligent to frame their lives according to the light of Nature, and the Law of that Religion they doe profee. And, to aert and maintain, that they may, is very pernicious, and to be deteted.

Hoe whom God effectually calleth, he alo freely jutifieth : not, by infuing righteounee into them, but by pardoning their ins, and by accounting and accepting their perons as righteous; not, for any thing wrought in them, or done by them, but for Chrits ake alone; nor, by imputing faith it elf, the act of beleeving, or any other evangelicall obedience, to them, as their righteoufnelle; but, by imputing the obedience and atisfaction of Chrit unto them, they receiving, and refting onhim and his righteoufnelfe by faith; which faith,they have,uot of themfelves, iris the gift of God r.

11. Faith, thus receiving'and reﬁing on Chriﬂ and his righteoufneffe, is the alone inllrument of jufliﬁcari - ond; yet is it not alone in the petfon juﬁiﬁed,but is ever accompanied with all other faving graces, andis no dead faith but worketh b Love e.