r., 13L Objeíti.ns from Scrtpturc anlivered. C H A P. I re If all this influence be to makeHim fit to be a Sacrifice, we have shown above , that the perfonal Union did that ; and confequently His aélive obe- dience, ifit had no other influence, is made a me'e,r flander by. (3.) A Righ- teoufnefs for rvhicb,& a Righteoufnefs with which, is a diftinCtion , in our cafe, without a difference ; for the one doth no way oppugne, or exclude the other, becaufe the meritorious caufe imputed , made over to and reckoned upon the fcore ofbeleevers, can be alto that Righteoufnefs with which they are juftified. (4) Whether it may be called the Material, or Formal caule of juftification ( that any ever called it the inftrumental caufe is more than 1. know ) is no great matter , feing it may be either , as the termes shall be ex- plained , which men are at freedom to do , according to their own minde, when they apply them unto this matter , which bath fo little affinity with Effects meerly Natural, unto the caufes of which thefe termes are pro- perly applied : though I should choofe rather to call it the formal ob- yeEfive caufe, if neceflitated to ufe here philofophik termes. (3) That to call Chritl's whole Righteoufnefs either the Material or Formal caufe of juftification , is to overthrow the merite of it , is laid , but not proved : It is not thefe philofophical termes themfelves, but the explication of them by fuch , as ufe them in this matter , that is to be regarded : and none shall ever show , that either of thefe termes , as explained by the orthodox , doth overthrow the merite of Chrifl's Righteoufnefs , bute doth rather efta- blish it. He faith 2. The H. Ghofl may re. fed the works of men from being the caufe of fach or fuck a thing, dir yet no wages intimat, that the toorks of any other should be the caufe thereof; If the words bad gone thus, not by the works of Righteoufnefs, which we our felves had done , this had been Tome what an higher ground , to have inferred the oppofite member of the diflinElion upon , v4. by the works of another or of Chrift. An f. This exception is as little to the purpofe as the former; for thefe words were here brought only to show, what the Apofile meant by the works of the law , which he excluded from juftification , vii. the works which we do : and not to prove immediatly, that the works of any other were underflood hereby. (a) It is a foolish thing to imagine a diflindtìon,be- twixt works, which tie do & works , which we our felvef , do, the fame word in the original , which vers S. is rendered we, is rendered we our [elves, vers 3. What poor shifts are thefe, which men take to fupport a defperat caufe ? He faith 3. To put the matter out of all queflion, that excluding th e tvorks of the law , which we had done, he had no intent to imply the works , which another might do, he expre1lcth theoppofition thus , according to His mercy. Anf. The miílake is ftill continued in : By thefe words, we onely cleare what the works are, which are excluded ; vi,. our perfonal works, or works,which we do, or have done: whole works dfe are accepted , other places prove exprefly , & this by con - fequence , unlefs the worke of a third could be alleiged. (2) The oppofition here made, deftroyeth not the oppofition which we make : for when we are juftified & Saved by the Imputation of the Righteoufnefs of Chrift , we are ju.ftified:& faved according to His mercy ;, as well as we are juftified freely by His
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