CONTENTS. IX
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obligeth both unto piinishracnt jvnd obedience — How, and in what sense — Pardon of sin gives no title to eternal life — The righteoiisness of Christ, who is one, imputed unto many — Arguments proving the -imputation of the obedience of Christ unto the justification of life . . . ' . . .251
CHAPTER XIII.
The diilerence between the two covenants stated — Arguments from thence . . 275
CHAPTEE XIV.
All works whatever expressly excluded from any interest in our justification before God — What intended by the works of the law — Not those of the ceremonial law onlj- — Not perfect woi-ks only, as requii'ed by the law of our creation — Not the outward works of the law, performed without a principle of faith — Not works of the Jewish law — Not works with a conceit of merit — Not works only wrought before believing, in the strength of our own wills — Works excluded absolutely from our justification, without respect unto a distinction of a first and second justification — The true sense of the law in the apostolical assertion that none are justified by the works thereof — What the Jews understood by the law — Distribution of the law under the Old Testament — The whole law a per- fect rule of all inherent moral or spiritual obedience — What are the works of the law, declared from the Scripture, and the argument thereby confirmed — The nature of justifying faith farther declared ...... 278
CHAPTER XV.
Of faith alone .......... 290
CHAPTER XVI.
Testimonies of Scripture confirming the doctrine of justification by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ — Jer. xxiii. C>, explained and vindicated . . 295
CHAPTER XVII.
Testimonies out of the evangelists considered — Design of our Saviour's sermon on the moiint— The piirity and penalty of the law vindicated by him — Arguments from thence — Luke xviii. 9-14, the parable of the Pharisee and publican ex- plained and applied to tlie present argument— Testimonies out of the Gospel by John, chap. i. 12, iii. 14-18, etc. ..... .299
CHAPTER XVIII.
Testimonies out of the Epistles of Paul the apostle — His design in the fifth chapter to the Romans — That design, explained at large, and applied to the present argu- ment— Chap. iii. 24-26 explained, and the ti-ue sense of the words vindicated — The causes of justification enumerated — Apostolical inference from the consi- deration of them — Chap, iv., design of the disputation of the apostle therein — Analysis of his discourse— Verses 4, 5, particularly insisted on ; their true sense vindicated — What works excluded from the justification of Abraham — Who it is that woiketh not — In what sense the ungodly are justified — All men ungodly antecedently unto their justification — Faith alone the means of justification on our part — Fiiith itself, absolvitely considered, not the righteousness tliat is im- puted unto us — ^Proved by sundry arguments ..... a06
X CONTENTS.
Rom. V. 12-21. Boasting excluded in oui'selves, asserted in God— The design and sum of the apostle's argiiment— Objection of Sociuus reraoTed — Comparison between the two Adams, and those that derive from them— Sin entered into the world — What sin intended— Death, what it compriseth, what intended by it— The sense of these words, " inasmuch," or, " in whom all have sinned," cleared and vindi- cated— Tlie various oppositinns used by the ajDostle in this discourse : principally between sin or the fall, and the free gift ; between the disobedience of the one, and the obedience of another; judgment on the one hand, and justification unto life on the other — The whole context at large explained, and the argument for justification by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ, fully confirmed . 321
Rom. X. 3, 4, explained and insisted on to the same purpose .... 338
1 Cor. i. 30. Christ, how of God made righteousness unto us — Answer of Bellar-
mine unto this testimony ^emoved— That of Socinus disproved — True sense of the words evinced ......... 344
2 Cor. v. 21. In what sense Christ knew no sin — Emphasis in that expression — How
he was made sin for us — By the imputation of sin unto him — Mistakes of some about this expression — Sense of the ancients — Exception of Bellarmine unto this testimony answered, with other reasonings of his to the same purpose — The exceptions of others also removed, ....... 347
Gal. ii. 16 354
Eph. ii. 8-10. Evidence of this testimony— Design of the apostle from the beginning of the chapter — Method of the apostle in the declaration of the grace of God — Grace alone the cause of deliverance from a state of sin — Things to be observed in the assignation of the causes of spiritual deliverance — Grace, how magnified by him — Force of the argument and evidence from thence— State of the case here proposed by the apostle — General determination of it, "Bygi-aceare ye saved" — What is it to be saved, inquired into— The same as to be justified, but not exclusively— The causes of our justification declared positively and nega- tively— The whole secui-ed unto the grace of God by Christ, and our interest therein through faith alone — Works excluded — What works? — Not works of the law of Moses— Not woi-ks antecedent unto believing — W^orks of time be- lievers—Not only in opposition to the grace of God, but to faith in us — Argu- ment from those words — Reason whereon this exclusion of works is founded — To exclude boasting on our part — Boasting, wherein it consists— Inseparable from the interest of works in justification — Danger of it— C'onfirmation of this reason, obviating an objection— 1'he objection stated— If we be not justified by works, of Avhat use are they ? answered . . _ . . . . 356