Thé Covenant of Works Chap. t . The conditi- ons in the C o- venant of Works kcpt man within himfelf For righteoufiiefie. The conditi- ons in the Co venant of Grace , carry a tyán out o Irimfelt to be righteous by anthers righ- teoufneffe. CHAP. X -I. Farther differences in the conditions bathe Covenant of Works, and the conditions in the Covenant of Grace. 2,1Y.-` He conditions , on mans part in the Covenant of Works kept man within himfelf for righteoufneffe. That righ- teoufheffe in which he was to {land in Gods fight was inhe- rent wrought by hirhfelf ; connatural! to him, flowing from the principles of his creation, in conformity to God. And therefore properly his own ; as now a mans reafon will and affetcions are properly his, he needed no other nor no more righteoufneffe then that in which he Rood. Though he had that faith which now ferves to juflifie ; yet it needed not , nor could be improved to take in any other righteoufneffe without himfelf for juftification. Man flood then on' his own bottome. His dependance was on God for being but that being which God pleafed to communicate, was in that integrity and purity, that he needed not any far- ther: But the conditions of the Covenant of Grace, carry man out of himfelf, he muftbe righteous with a righteoufnefs extrinfecal, or elle he will never be able to fland in judgement. 'Paul was as high as he that was highefl in that righteoufneffe, which he could lay claime to, as his own wrought by himfelf, as well before con - verfion as after. Before converfion he was as high as a Pharifee, or a Jew according to the letter could reach either in priviledges, or duties , as we may fee in that gradation of his, Phil. 3. Cir- curncifed, and therefore of the body of the peòple ofGod , and no alien from the Common - wealth of Ifrael; circtemcifed the eigth day and therefore borne of Parents in the fame Church - communion of the gockof Ifrael, and fo the feed of . 46raham and not defcended of anceflors that had been Profely;tes ; of the tribe of Benjamin, of that part of Ifrael that held the truth of worfhip , of whom was falvation, and not of the Apofláted tribes; an Hebrew of the Hebrews, and therefore by transplanta- tion not forgotten the language of Canaan ; touching the Phaifee, ae-nan of no vulgar account, but of the moft exquifite See ; concerning zeal`, ferfecnting the Church, therefore not luke-
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