C fi A r, 13. \'ír. Baxter's opinion a bout Irnput. examined. 20 t !landing fo ever shall underhand his Expreffions, let be the matter by them, that is not very well verfed both in 4riflotles "Logicks or Metaphyficks and the termes thereof, and in juflinian's Lawes and the termes thereof, I am far deceived. He that would underhand this plaine difcovery of the (tie- Ilion , mutt underhand what R Rations are ; what 1Zeatus culp e dim peenæ; what ptena damni fenfus ; what ce,((ante capacitate Subdìti, what pro -legal R,igh- teoufnefs ; what quoad valorem dT quoad ordinem conferendi & rationem cotn- parativarn , what is Terminus & fundamentum in relations ; what is Titular fundamentum jttrir ; what ca'ifa fondamenti donationis, & the like: And if all Linexercifed Readers shall be able to underhand this , I doubt : And Pure I am many poor foul , that underftands nothing of thefe termes, gets grace of God to underhand the thing, better than all this explication ( how plaine fo ever it he called ) shall ever make him do. And if this be the plainest way , that Mr. Baxter can chofe to make us underhand this fo necef- fary and fundamental a truth , I shall never choofe him for my Teacher , as to this. It could therefore tend co no edification , at leap unto his Unex- perienced Readers , ( whofe edification , I judge , should be fought by us all, in handling of this matter) to fall upon any examination of, or debate with him about what he lath here Paid, feing it would neceffarily end in a debate about logical and Law termes ; which I shall rather leave to others, who have delight therein. And befide, the matter it felf, delivered by hircin more plaine & intelligible termes , (as i judge ) both to exercifed & more unexercifed Readers , is already examined. Notwithttanding ( as we have Peen ) his opinion be different from what the orthodox do commonly hold, in this quehion : yet Chap. q.. he flateth the quehion , againh which he purpofeth to difput , fo as he may be fure, none ofthefe will oppofe him : yea and it may be doubted, if Antìnomians themfelves will contradict hire; for thus he propofeth what he denied]. That God did fo imputeChrift's Righteou fnefs to us, as to repute , or account us to have been holy with all that habitual holinefs, which was inChrifi, or to have done all that He did, in obedience to His Father, or in ful filling the Lam; or to have fief' feted all that He ftufred , dT to have made Satis faftion for our fins , dr merited our own Salvation a julli fication in d ". by Chrift ; or that He was , did fuffered lb' merited all this firiclly in the perfon ofevery fanner, that is Caved. Or that Chrtft's very individual R.. ghteou fnefs, material or formal, is fo made ours in a flrick fenfe as that we are Proprietors , Subjefts or Agents of the very thing it felt fimply and abfolutely , as it it diftintl from the effeftr ; or that Chilli's Individual formal Righteoufnefr it made our formal perfonal Rightcou fnefs : or that , ar to the Efts , we have any filch Iùghteeufnefs imputed to us, as formally ours, which confifleth in perfeft Habitual and Aaual conformity to the Law of Innocency; that ir, that we are reputed perfeftly holy and fanlefs, and fàch as shall be jufli fiedby the Law of Innocency, which faith, perfectly obey and live , or fin & dye. And the more to fecure himfelf from all oppofition from the orthodox, he propofeth this Law ( which is but equitable ) to all that will anfwere him ([ fuppofe he meaneth the Arguments that there follow) that he muff keep to his words, & not alter the fenfe by leaving any out. I shall therefore be none
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