C It A P. 23'. the exceptions of Cohn Goodwine, 31'1ß old termes ( as forne, who plead for llniverfal Redemption , fay God might have done , had he fo pleafed , after the Atonement was made ) in this cafe, might it not be faid that every perfon hat should now be j uflified , upon the performance of thefe termes , 73uftified by the performance of the, Condition , as by his own Righteoufnefs; & that this new Obedience were all the Righteoufnefs he had , & declared to have, when juftified ? & should he not be juflified upon the account thereof folely ? And was he more cbli ged unto the Atonement of Chtift, than others , who did violate of new thefe Conditions ? And feing now Faith is put in the fame place , and made to have the fame Force & Efficacy ; shall we not now be Juftified by this one aEtof Obedience , as we would have been, in the other cafe, by perfect Obedience ? And if it be fo , is it not manifefl , that we are juilified by a Righteoufnefs , that is Imperfe&, & that all the prefuppofal of a pet-fed A- tonement, doth not availe ? (z) When it is faid , that it is through the A- tonement , made byChrift, that we beleeve in him , or in God through him , it muff be grat ted that Chrift hath purchafed Faith, & that either to all , or to fome , and if to all, then either abfolutly , or upon condition if to all, & that abfolutly then all should have faith ; if upon condition, we defire to know , what that condition is ? If not to all , but to fome only , then Chrif} cannot be faid ro have died alike for all. (3) as to that he faith vi.t. That it is thrittgh the fame.atonement , that God imputeth our faith to us , for righteoufnefs , d?' juflifiethusupon our beleeving, it being the fame that others lay , who tell us , that Chrift bath procured faith to be the condition & ter - mes of the new Covenant, we shall fay no more now , than that we fee no ground to afferme any fuch thing , & here after we shall give our reafons. Argum. 6. If faith be imputed tour for R,j hteoufnefs, then God shouldrather receive a Righteoufnefr from us , then ire from him , in our juflification. But God doth not receive a rigbteoufnefr from us , but we from him in jußi fication, There- fore &c, He excepteth.by denying the confequeuce upon thefe reafons. (r) Becaufè God's imputing Faith for rìçhteouf'nejs doth no wayec implye that faith ir a righte- oufnefs , properly fo called, but, only that God by the meaner thereof, e upon the tender of it loops upon us as righteous , yet not as made either meritorioufly or formally righteous by it , but as having performed that condsticn or Covenant, upon the performance whereof he bath promi(ed to make us righteous , rneritoriovfly by the death 6" fufferings of his owne fon; formally with the pardon of all our finr. Anf. All this can give no fatisfa&ion, for. (i) If no Righteoufnefs be imputed to us, in order to Juftification, but Faith , and if faith it felf be hereby made no ltighteoufnefs, then we are juftified without any Righteoufnefs at all; & God shall be faid to pronunce them Righteous , who have no Righteouf- nefs at all ; or Juftification muff be fome other thing , than a pronunceing on declaring of a man Righteous. (z) Why have we heard fo much above faid for Faiths being Righteoufnefs & why have there been fo many pafiages of Scripture adduced to confirme this, particuiarly fuch as mention the Righ- teoufnefs of faith , or the Righteoufnefs of God by faith ? But it maybe, this Jálvo is added, aItigbteoufnefr properly fo called; Yet then it will follow, P p 3 . that F . it n rf
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