C 14 A P. a 5. Faith is not our Righteou fnefs. 32.7 - usfo plahiely & fo fully & fofrequently, of the Righteoufnefs of God, which is had by faith, & through faith , as we have feen ; & never fpeaketh of a Righteoufnefs had , becaufe of faith , or for Faith; nor faith he , that faith is our Righteoufnefs, while treating of inf}ifl ation. C H A F. XXV. Faith is not our Gofpel-Righteoufnefs. 01.1r Adverfaries, to flrengthen their Affertion of the Imputation of Faith , in a proper fenfe , to the exclufì.on of the imputation of the Righteoufnefs of Chritl , have other two Pofitions, which th::y own & maintaine. One is , that our Faith or our ac`t of beleevingis the whole of our Gofpel- Righteoufnefs : And the other is. That Chrift hath procured that it should be fo, by procuring the New Covenant, whereof this faith is made the Condition. To this laic we shall fpeak fomething , in the next Chapter; & of the other here. How much Mr. Baxter cloth contend , for our Faiths being called & ác- counted our Gofpel - Righteoufnefs, is known. The forenamed Author of the difcourfe of the two Covenants is very plaine pan. 48. &c. where he is explai- ning, whatGo.l's counting Abraham's faith to him for Righteoufnefs is. There he tels us, that he takes it to lignifie thus much , to wit. That God, in. "Way of fpecial grace , or by verttte of a new Law of grace d^' favour which was ofablishedby God , inChrtfl ( Gal. 3: 17. ) that it, in reference to what Chrifl wac to do d5 fuffer , in time then to corne , did reckon bic ?radical faith to him for IRighteou f ne f f., that is , that which in the eye of that new Law , should paff e in his efliutation for righteoufnefs , firbordinat to Chrifi's R,ighteou fnefr , which procured this grant or Lars... And 1 hereafcer pag. 40. he tels us , That it is an ad o f God's f p.ecial favour , dr by vertue of his new .Law of grace, that fueh a faith, as hehach defcribed ( that is , a faith taking in all Gofpel Obedience , as we fa w ab >;ve ) comer to be reckoned or imputed to a man for tighteoufnefs & through God's ilnputing it for righteoufnefs, to ftand a man in the Jame, if not in a better. flead , as to his eternal concerns. , as a per fed fulfilling of the original Law from firfi to lafl would have done. Chrifl's Rj htcou(nefs being ; ern ppofed the only Me- ritorieus Cattle of this gran or Covenant. Thereafter pag. o. he tels us , there are two things which confluisti d' makeup the Kighteoufnefì cfthe Law of Grace, fir/1, that which confifieth in the forgivenefs of fins &" .. the righteoufnefs of f ncere ob..drence: And in inference to both , he faith, faith is imputed for righteoufnefs b vertue of the Law of Grace; for, faith he , faith as prat eal is imputed to at man for ri .hteoufnefr, as it is that '5 all that, which is required of hi'ri hi m felfb, the Lath of Grace, to entitle him to the righteoufnefs , which conpflethin rentífron of fins. Aral then as to the fecond he faith pa,. çz. That faith is imputed for righteoufnefs , which is pratlical or produílive Af f ncere obedience , without which property it is net a ful filling of thß Law of Grace, as a condi :can of the promiled R 3 b,-
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