II. Together with this inward changeof their persons, God

changes also their state: for, so soon as they are brought by- faith into the covenant of grace, 1. He justifies them, by im- puting unto them that perfect obedience which Christ gave to the law, and the satisfaction also which upon the cross Christ gave unto justice in their name. 2. He reconciles them, and makes them friends to God, who were before enemies to God. 5. He adopts them, that they shall be no more children of Satan, but children of God, enriched with all spiritual pri- vileges of his sons. And, last of all, after their warfare in this life is ended, he perfects the holiness and blessedness, first of their souls at their death, and then both of their souls and kheir bodies, being joyfully joined together again in the re- surrection, at the day of his glorious coming to judgment, when all the wicked shall be sent away to hell, with Satan whom they have served : but Christ's own chosen and re- deemed
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deemed ones, true believers, students of holiness, shall rc- inain with himself for ever, in the state of glorification.
PRACTICAL USE OF SAVING KNOWLEDGE, !
Contained in Scripture^ and holdcn forth briejii/ in the foresaid Confession of Faith and Catechisms.
'"PHE chief general use of Christian doctrine is, to con- •^ vince a man of sin, and of righteousness, and of judg- ment, John xvi, 8. partly by the law or covenant of works, that he may be humbled and become penitent ; and partly by the gospel or covenant of grace, that he may be- come an unfeigned believer in Jesus Christ, and be strength- ened in his faith upon solid grounds and warrants, and give evidence of the truth of his faith by good fruits, and so be saved.
The sum of the covenant of works, or of the law, is this: *' If thou do all that is commanded, and not fail in *' any point, thou shalt be saved : but if thou fail, thou *' shalt die.'' Rom. x. 5. Gal. iii. 10, 12.
The sum of the gospel, or covenant of grace and recon- ciliation, is this : " If thou flee from deserved wrath to the •' true Redeemer Jesus Christ, (who is able to save to the ** uttermost all that come to God through him,) thou shalt " not perish, but have eternal life." Rom. x. 8, 9, 11.
For convincing a man of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment by the law, or covenant of works, let these scrip- tures, among many more, be made use of.