Chap,4.Sefr.5 Looking unto :Jefos. Book IV. thing to ob:y t~e ~omman.dment, and another thing to fuff~r t~e punilhment; fo 1t 1s one thmg to be ~reed from heH by Chnft h1s futfering the penalty, and another thtng to be lntttled to heaven, byChrift his fulfilling the commandments. 3. Theyexcept, that God is a m10ft free agent, and therefore he may if he will, juftifie men by the pailive righteoufneffe ofChrift only, without fulfilling of the law. Anjw. · What Go~ may do, if he\will, I will not difpute, but fure I am, that, he JUfttfieth men according to his will revealed in his Word ; and there we firrde.,, that as we are juftifi ed from our fins by the blood ofehrifr, fo a[fo.we arc made jull by the active (though not only by the active) obedience ofChrifr; f ar M by one mm:u di[obedimce many were made Rom . 5· 19. finners,[o by the obedimce ofone foal! many be made righteous. And ifwhen we were enemieJ, we wtre reconciled to God by the death of hu Sonne, much mm being reconc~fed we foal/ be[<ilved by hio life: R0m, $.xo, by his life which he lived before hts death, and by his life which he lived , and doth live afw his death; by the acts of his life before his death meritorioufl y, and by the acts of his life after his death (as by his refurrection, afcenfion, feffion, and interceffion) effectua.lly. Ch~~ff io made un_to m ~f r;jod (faith ~he Aport! e) both 1 Cor, 1 , 30 , redemptzon and nthteou(nej[e: redemptton to deltver us from fin; and righteoufneffe to bring in everf<Rjfing righteoufnej[e. 4· They Dan; 9• 14: except, that ifwe are juftified by Chrift his fulfilling the law, then we are juftified by a legal righteoufnelfe, but we are not jufrified by a legal righteoufnelfe, but by fucb a righteou[nelfe as without the law is revealed in the Gofpel. Anfw. The fame righreoufn,elfe by which we are jullified, is bot a legal and evangelical in diverfe refpects., legal in refpect ofChrifi:, who being made under the law, that he mig~t redeem l!ls who were under the law, perfectly fulfilled the law f9r us; and evangelical in refpect ofus unto whom his fulfilling ofthe law is imputed, And herein ftands both the agreement and difference betwixt the law and the Go. fpel ; the agreement in that both require the perfect fuLfilling of the law unto jullification ; the difference in that the law requireth perfect obedtence to be performed in our own perfons, but the Gofpel accep ts of perfect obedience performed by Chrifi: our furety andimputed to ug; and fo it is all one aJs if it had been performed in our own perfons. 2. IfChrift byhisconformitytothe law fulfilled thelawfor U$,
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