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Rh 4. ''Therefore this faith is deceitful evenſuch as will leave thee under wrath, in the day of God Almighty. For true Juſtifying Faith puts the ſoul (as ſenſible of its loft condition by the Law) upon flying for refuge unto Chriſts righteouſneſs: (Which righteouſneſs of his, is not an acl of grace, by which he maketh for Juſtification thy obedience accepted with God, but his perſonal obedience to the Law in doing and ſuffering for us, what that required at our hands) This righteouſneſs, I ſay, true faith accepteth, under the skirt of which, the ſoul being ſhrouded, and by it preſented as ſpotleſs before God, it is accepted, and acquit from condemnation.''

Ignor. What! would you have us truſt to what Chriſt in his own perſon has done without us! This conceit would looſen the reines of our luſt, and tollerate us to live as we liſt: For what matter how we live, if we may be Juſtified by Chriſts perſonal righteouſneſs from all, when we believe it?

Chr. Ignorance is thy name, and as thy name is, ſo art thou; even this thy anſwer demonſtrateth what I ſay. Ignorant thou art of what Juſtifying righ-