Ch~p.4.Sett.~. fure : in this ftudy and practife of piety con!lileth our new obedience, which we muft therefore be careful to performe, though Chrift as to juft ification hath performed it for us. 3. They except, that ifChrift by his active obedience fulfilled the law for us, and that fo we are juftified from all kind of fin both original and aCl:ual,then Chrifts fuffering was in vaine. Anfw. Chrifis active obedience is an effential part orour jufiification, but not all our jufiification; the material caufe ofour jufrification is the whole courfeofthe aC\:ive and paffive obedience of Chrift, together with his original righteoufneffe, or habitual conformity unto the law; I fay together with hi.r original righteoufnefJe, becaufe many authors expreffe no more, but only Chritl:s achve and paffive obedience; but they are to be underfiood, as a!ferting bi5 original righteoufnelfe implicitely, the act prefuppo!lng the habit. And here obferve the difference betwixt the law in cafe of innocency, and the law in cafe ofGri; the law in cafe of innocency required only doing, but the law in cafe of fin cannot be fatisfied without doing and fuffering, Gal. 3· 10 . Gen. 2. 17. Original juftice and active obedience was fufficient to jufiifie man in his innocency, buc not to jufiifie man fallen; and therefore we · do not feperate thefe, the original, the actual, and the pafilve righteoufnefs ofChri£1:, as to the matter of jufiification, but we imply all. 3 • Wereadin Scriptureoftwoparts ofJ'uftification, v iz.. , the A " rgn. 3· abfolving of a beleeving ftnner from the guilt of ftn and,death ; and the accepting of a be!eeving ftnner as righteous unto life. The former is wrought by the futferings ofChrift imputed as a full fatisfaction forfin, the other by imputation ofChrifis perfect obedience, as a fufficient merit of eternal life . by the former we are freed from hell , by the latter we are entitle'd to the Kingdofi!e 0fheaven, of them both the Apofrle !peaks, we are j ttftified by bi.r . blcod, Rom. 5. 9· and we ti re made righteou:5 by hi.r obedimce, Rom, f. 9. I9. Rom. 5. r 9· --Our adverfaries deny thefe two parts of ju!titicat ion,faying that it con!lfl:s wholly in remiffion of Gn~But we reply in every mutation,though it be but relative, we mu£1: ofneceffity acknov1ledge two termes, terminum a quo, & terminum ad quem, the denomination being commonly taken from the latter : as in jufiification there is a motion or mutation from Gn to jufiice, ( from which terme juftification hath its name) from a fi ate of 0 o o death
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