C H A P. t 6. Chrift did trot procure by his death the New Covenant, 33-7' y. Iffo, then we mutt fay with Pap fls, that Chrift bath procured a worth to our Faith & Obedience , to merise ex patio, the good things promifed unto fuch , as are beleevers & obedient : Yea hereby there would be more of merise in our Faith ,then in Chrift's obedience. 6. We mntt fay , that Chrift bath purchafed that we might be Juflified by an Imperfed Righteoufnefs; For fure our faith & new Obedience is not perfect even when fincere, they laboureof many Imperfections, & have droffe & faultinefs admixed : As allo that he hash purchafed , that an Im- perfetl Righteoufnefs should I e accounted & eflemed a perfed Righteouf- nefs; & confequently that the judgment of God shnuld not be according to truth : which were blafphemfous & iniquous to imagine. 7. Thus in efled, Chritt should be made the miniller of fin , by changing.. the conditions of the old Law , which were perfect & compleet Obedience, into an obedience far short of that , & thus he mutt be come either to dif- folve the Obligation of the Law, that it should not exaa now , what it did exalt of old ; or to loose us from the Obligation thereof; that we,should be in part Law-lets ; neither of which can be afferted ; & yet this Pofition maketh clear way for either , or for both. S. Then we muff fay, that Chrift hath purchafed fuch a way of Juftifica- tion,as leaveth ground to men to glory & boat} though not before God , yet before men ; for hereby he is made to purchafe the renewing of the old Co- venant of works , with force mitigation , as to the termes, though with little mitigation , as to the perfons ; unlefs we fay with thefe Arminian;; that Man is as able to beleeve & obey fineerely , if he will , as Adam was to obey perfeElly : But fore Chrift came for far other end, than to leave man any ground of boa sing , or of glorying in himfelf for his Jollification & Salva Lion , as having made himfelf to differ. 9. Then Chrill hath purchafed a way , whereby man might hold his Par- don , Ju(lification , Adoption &c. more of himfelf , than of Chrift ; for Chri(i by this way cannot be faid to have purchafed our Pardon, Juflification &c. but only that we should have thefe favoures upon our Faith : or have filch & fuch a reward of our Faith & Obedience; As he, who procureth that a perfon shall have fuch a benefice upon condition he performe fuch a piece' of fervice, cannot be laid to have procured that reward; for notwith(lan- ding of this procurement ( if it may be fo called which is at bell, but acon- ditional uncertain thing) the perfon might never have gotithe reward. to. Then the making of the New Covenant, and the making of it on thefe termes, should bean a&of meer Juflice, in God , and not an ads of his free Grace, Love, good Pleafure, Will & Kindnefs for it is Jutlice & Righteoufnefs in God, to do that, which Chrift bath purchafed & piocure& to be done; though, it is true, it may thus be accounted a mecr favoure it was of God's free will, to enter into Inch termes of agreement with the Mediator , & to yeeld to the making of fuch a condition , upon Chrift's purchafe. But the Apofle tels us Ephef t: 9.. that God made I<notrn unto ut -the my flerie of hi; will, according to hit good plea fure, which he puvpofed in him - Íeif. Which tnytlerie of his will is the New Covenant & difpenfation grace: a ît
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