(335) N thefe fewwords are clofely couched thefe ten points,whichI I maintain. x. That it is not as any part our righteoufnefs of the Law ofworks, that faith juftifieth. 2. Nor from any excel. lency in the aC't or habit , as the neareft reafon of its intereft in juftification. 3. That Chrifts righteoufnefs is the matter or meri- ting caufe of our righteoufnefs; 4. Faith is the acceptance of Chrift as offered, and righteonfnefs with him. 5.That the Gofpel. Covenant is Gods deed of gift, beftowingright to Chrift, and righteoufnefs with him. 6. That therefore conilitutive Juftifi- cation is performed by the Gofpel-Covenant as the Inftrument. 7. That Chrift himfelfis firft given by this Covenant, and righte- oufnefs but in him. 8. That the neareft or formal reafon of faiths intereft in Juftification, is, its being the conditionof the juftifyingCovenant, freely by the Donor and Retor, Afligned to that Office. 9. That the reafon why faith was deputed to this office by God, ( fo far as man may give a reafonof his actions ) was from the fpecial aptitude it had to this fpecial work, it being effentially the acceptance ofCh rift and life freely given. So that this is but its aptitude to the Office, and the reafon ofits defigna- tion thereto, and not the neareft or formal reafon of its intereft. That this condition comes in the place of perfed obedience, which was the condition of the firft Covenant : but not from the fame reafons, nor to the fame neareft ends. But the fpecial point that I cite this Author for, is his exa4t difcovery how far works juffifie, andof the twofold righteoufnefs thereto neceffary, and the reconciling (1) aul and 74me.has in part the words following thew. Dem ibid. §. 41. Id ipfum fortaffebac ration commode- 141 explicabitur. Opponitur yafli- ficatio accufationi. Acluabwau- ton accufationibus premimur in foro Divino. ?imam objicitur, Nos ere peccatores : hoc eft' reos violate conditions q0,0 federe legali lata einde objicitur, Nos His will perhaps be more I fitly thus explained. Jai& cation is oppofed to accufation. And at Gods Bar we are pref. fed with a twofold Accufation Firft it is objefted, that we are (inners : that is, guilty ofviola-, ting the condition which Was impofed in the Legal Covenant. Next
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