a 3 ó Faü is not OUT Righteoufnefs. C H A P. z5. as had been for Adam, if he had continned to the end. The evafion he bath to make all this of grace, faying p. 49, 5o. And yet every beleevers juflifrca- tion will be all of grace , becaufe the Latta by which they are jufli fled is wholly of grace, d: was enacted in sneer grace Qs" favour to undone man , is not able to help him ; for it was wholly of undeferved grace & love , that God did fofarcon- defcend to Adam , & to all mankinde in him , as to thick a Covenant with h tç him, a promife of fuch an ample reward upon his performance of the condi- tion of Petted Obedience to the end ; & yet notwithflanding this Law was wholly of grate & was enaíled in meer grace & favoure : for neither was the Lod neceflìtated thereunto ; not could Adam fay , he had deferved any fuch thing ar God's hand , the reward had been reckoned to Adam, if he had flood ,, of debt , not fitnplie and abfolutly , but ex patio ; by reafon of thecompad: So-that we fee., the cafes run parallel & the Covenant is of the fame nature '& kinde. The difference betwixt the Power granted to A- dair & now to man , to performe the conditions required, is with him , the fame capon the matter ; for if man will go the length he can & may , he may be lure of God's help to convoy him all the length he should ; And what had Adam more ? And as for the diverfitie of the conditions , which then -were PerfeEt Obedience , & now only Sincere , that can make no alteration in the Nature of the Covenant : and betide , I fee not , why this Man can not as well fay that if man now will go as far , as he may & can by his own flock of power , unto the performance of Perfet Obedience ; God will certainly give him his help to carry him forward; as he faith , that if man will now go all the length he can unto the.performance of Faith , Repentan- ce, &new fincere obedience, God is ready & willing to contribute his help _tocarry him forward thereunto. 5. F-le confounderh the right to, with the pofl'efion of life eternal , as ro their Caufes & intecedents; for as new & holy Obedience is by us trade the way to the poffeflion of the, Kingdom : fo by him it is made the way or . cauee of the Right jus to the Kingdom ; for he requireth it as antecedent to a mans Juflification & firft being brought into a Covenant Bare with God, when he fin i receiveth the Right to the inheritance ; And thus the Inheri- tance is made to be of the Law , & not of prpmife , contrare to Gal. 3: IS. for the whole and fure Right thereunto is had by Obedience to the Law, with him. I shall fay no more to this here , becaufe there is a fitíñcient confutation of this tobefound in Mr. Durham On the Revel. pag. 2.34. &c. where that digref- liion is handled , concerning the way of Covenanting with God ,\ d." of a firmer ob raining of 3ufl:fccatton before him. And in all fuch as write againft Papi fts and Socin:ant, on this head. But if it be asked, may not faith be called our Gofpel - Righteoufnefs, & be Paid to be imputed to heieevers, as fuch a Righteoufnefs, without any wrong done to the Righteoufnefs of Chriff, which keepeth ftill its own pla- ce of being our legal or pro legal Righteoufnefs ? I Anf Though it be true, that Faith is now required of all that would be Juflified ; 'yet I no where .fia. de, rhatitis called our GofpelRighteoufnefs; and ljudgeit not faifetoad- mit
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