C H A P. 2 5. Faith is not our 7uffifieation. 335 But faith Mr, Baxter againft Mr. Cartwright p. 179. In repaid of that jußi- fi cation , which is from the accufation of the Lawcf tvorkr, I fày faith is but a condition 5 no otherwife jußi f eth, but becaufe it it made that condition by a New -Law , per legem remediantem , & we muß be judged by that Law : the.. refore, when the cafe it, whether we have performed the conditions of that new Iowa or not ? then faith is materially that Righteoufnefs , by which we muß be jt.ßi- fied, againß all occupations of Non- performance. Anf. (r) I doubt if fuch as never heard a report of Chrift, shall be judged by the New -Law ; far lefle by it alone. (z) God will not call in queftion a Beleevers faith , nor accule him of Non-performance. Nor will the Gofpel , or New -Law do ir ; fo that the Beleever needs not plead his performance ; in reference to a Jollifi- cation at the tribunal of God. (3) Then Faith is made a Condition by a New -Law, & thereby'tecome the beleevers Righteoufnefs, this Righte oufnefsis the Condition , and is therefore a Righteoufnefs , becaufe made* condition , by that new Law ; yea & elfewhere ibid, pag. lob. this Righte- oufnefs is faid to be compleet & perfedt , as all Righteoufnefs muff be : we. fee, what weight is laid upon it. And when there is no other Righteouf- nefs properly imputed tous, ( for as for that Imputation of Chrift's Righ- teoufnefs, which he would yeeld to as the only found feule , it is but what jefuiter, Socinianr, e Arminianr yeeld to, & we cannot be fatisfied with , ) who feeth not , how this matter is framed fo,as all the weight of the fou( muff be laid upon this perfonal Righteoufnefs , efpecially when it is made another Sort of Condition, than we can acknowledge it to be , as shall be leen of terward; and when it is the immediateground ofour Right to Pardon , Jufti- fication , Adoption &c. for Chrift's purchafe was ( to him ) general & com- mon, and no more for one, than for another , and to all conditionally. If it be laid. What hazard is there , fo long as Chrift's Righteoufnefs ss held to be that, which fatisfieth for the breach of the Covenant of Works, & is full SatisfaEtion to juftice, and which hath purchafed the New- Cove- nant, and the new eaue termes; our Righteoufnefs, in performing the new eafie termes , whereby we come to have Right to life & all the benefices pure chafed by Chrift , is no way prejudicial unto that , nor robbeth not Chrift's Satisfadionof the leanof the glory due to it. 1 Anf. The hazard (till conti- nueth , for hereby our Gofpel Righteoufnefs, be it Faith alone, or Faith & Works together , is made the immediate & tole ground of our Right to the benefices ; for what Chrift did , was general & common , and He , by what he did , made no particular purchafe of any good unto any but procured the New- Covenant , and the new grant of life upon the eafie termes, alike un- to all : the fatisfadtion, which he made unro the Lawgiver for the breach of the old Covenant , was not as a peculiar Cautioner, for any in particu- lar , but was equally for all , & as much for the damned , as for the faved; So that our Right to the benefices cometh purely & wholly from our perfor- mance of the New Termes, which Chrift is Paid to have purchafed. There- fore , though our perfonal Righteoufnefs hath no intereft in purchafing the New Covenant,or in making fatisfaäion to Juftic_e , unto that end; yet lu- Rice being now fatisfied equally for all, and the New Covenant being pur- S f z chafed
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