y,_ 104 Some kg. Vindicated from C H A P. 23ò in a juridical fenfe to wit for abfolution : but in a phyfical or moral fenfe , fer making c f a man compleet /y tuft cis' righteous. A nf. What Stvencfeldres laid , 1 finde tioc recorded by Zanchie in the place cited, in my edition , & if his words be rightly repeeted iu the margine , he hath had the fame judgment, that Pa ¡lifts have , which is fufficiently known , & with whom none in rea. fon will fay we confpire , upon the account of this argument , who but ob- ferveth :his , ( which abundantly difcovereth the impertinency of this Ex- ception ) Th;t the minor & its Probation (peak not of the aft of God Juiti- fying, but of his fimpleadtof Eftimatingor Judging, which mutt alwayes be according to truth , & therefore we cannot think , or fay, that God jud- -geth , or eftimateth that to be a compleat Righteoufnefs , which is nothing io. And betide , though Juftification it Pelf were here underftood : yet it might be faid, without any ground of imputation either of Popery or of .Stvencfeldianifine , that God , who is the juft & Righteous Judge will not abfolve a perfon as Righteous , who is not Righteous , nor pronunce him -Righteous, who path not a Righteoufnefs, as he hath not, who batch nothing but nis a & of Beleevingimputed to him. Except. 2. Any ail ion conformable to a righteous Law may be is' is called Righ . tébufnefs , asthat fait of Phineas Pfal. io6: 3 o. And faith being an obedience to a fpccial commandement (I ¡oh. 3: 23. z Pet. z: 2i, R.om.i: S. ) it may be with truth , .ds' firfficient propriety of (peach, called a righteoufnefr. 41nf. But of a particular Righteoufnefs we are not here (peaking , nor of a particular Jufti. fication of fuch an a& , but of a Juftification , as to State , and of a correi- ponding Righteoufnefs, which mutt be univerfal , anfwerable tò the chal- lenge ofthe Law ; and no particular a& of Obedience will be accounted fuch a Righteoufnefs by God , who is Truth & Juttice it felt, in order to the condemned mans Juftification. Betide himfelf telsus, in end , that this ex- ception is nothing CO the purpofe ; for he doth not conceive , that by Faith, when it is Paid to he imputed , is meaned an a& of conformity to any particu- lar precept of God. And thetefore he. Excepteth 3. That , which we wane , is this , that God looks upon a man , who truely beieeveth , with as mrch grace & favour , d?' intends to do as bounti- fully by him , as if he were a man of perfett righteou fne(s. An f. But this Excep- ter should have laid, that Faith in the letter dT formality of it, is imputed; for thus he difputes againtt the Imputation of Chrift's Righteoufnefs: and he should have Paid , that God looketh upon the frmple at of Faith, as Per-. feet Obedience to all the Law : for when we plead for the imputation of Chrift's Righteoufnefs, he faid, that thereby we make God to look upon us, as performing that Righteoufnefs , in our own perlons. Neither will ' he & others underftand any other Imputation : and yet we fee, how they . can fpeak , when explaining the imputation of faith, that they may think to evite the force of an argument, But (2) though it be true, that God dealeth thus , as is laid , with Beleèvers ; Yet that can give no ground to think , that he imputeth Faith for Righteoufnefs : becaufe it is not upon the - account of Faith , taken as an ad of their obedience , that the Lord dealeth fo with them , but upon the account of the Righteoufnefs of Chrilt imputed to
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