C 279 "Info. I deny your minor. The converted thief had a legal righteoufnefs hanging on the next Crofs to him; even Chrift that thenwas made a curfe for him, and was obedient to the death of the Crofs. I begin tobe a weary in writing fo much only to tell men that you underftand menot. c.í`yfr. W,6. Iflegal Righteossfnef be thus necelarily to be join- ed With our Evangelical Righteouf rfs to Tutufication). then there moil be twoformal ca afes of7uflification. flnfw. I deny your confeguence. If the formal caufe con- fifl: in remit lion and imputation as you fay , then Chrifts meri- torious righteoufnefs is none of the Form, but the Mætter. And if befides that Matter a fubfervient particular righteoufnefs(of faith) be necefffry as the conditionof our Title toChrif ; this makes not two forms of this Juftification. 2. And yet I grant you that it infers a fubfervient Juftification that bath another form, when you are made a Believer, or jufified against the falfe charge ofbeingno Believer(or penitent)this is not remifíi- on of fin,but another form and thing. Mr. W.7. That Which maketh void chriftis death,cannot be abfelutely veccfarl to 7t'fíification. Tsrt legal righteoufn fs makes voidhis Death, Gal. 2. z t . Anf. Its a fad cafe that we muff be charged with making void Chrifts Death, for laying that he is legally Righteous, by fatisfyïng and fulfilling the Law ; and that this is all the legal righteoufnehs that we have. I am bold therefore to deny the Minor : vea and to reverie it on you, and tell you,that he that denyeth Chrifts legal Righteoufnefs, denyeth both his death and obedience. The Text gal.2.2 r. fpeaks not of the Law, as fulfilled by Cbrift, but by us. Righteoufnefs comes not by our keeping the Law, but it carne by Chrifts keeping it : yet fo,;hat the Gofpe! only giveth us that íighteoufnefsof his, Mr. W. 8. That Whic! concurs with another efficient , mss loAle
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