CH A P, z 7.. How faith is s rendition , how not b, ac 339 to have Redeemed any nor fo have died in the room &- itand-of any, but only for our good as fay theSocinianr. To purchate a new Covenant, i not to be a Propitiation, an uys4AvirY , to bear our fins , to Reconcile any unto God. 16. Mr. Baxter himfelf againft Mr. Cartwright p. 92. bath thefe words. .And therefore the Performer ¿r the Accepter did them felves ( N B. ) shoo fe ., on what termes it (i. e. Chrift's Righteoufnefs ) should be applied to us, or be made onrs , quoad fruEtus : And the termer refolved on were the New Cove- nants conditions , which are now requited of us to our participation hereof The - fe words import force other rife unto this Covenant, than the purchafe of Chriff. C H A P. XXVII: How Faith is,and may be called a Condition of the new o venant, and ofJuíhification, how not. T may be of fome uCe . , .. ,. to enquire in what way faith is and may be. called a Condition.... The orthodox never denied , that it may be cal- led a Condition.... yet withall we mutt alwayes look upon Faith as an Inftrument, or lntlrumentál Meane in Juftificatioo , becaufe of its being as the hand of the foul to receive, bring -in, grip -to & lay -hold on the Righ- teoufnefs of Chriit , as the Righteoufnefs of a Cautioner & of a publick per- fon , to the end they might be juflified, Abfolved from the f ntence of the Law, & Accounted & pronunced Righteous ,iii the fight of God. _3 Upon the other hand, Socenians & Arrninians, who call the whole Gofpel in a new mould of their own , deny Faith to be an Inítrument, & afhert, that it is only a Condition , or a cau fetf ne qua non , as they (peak : And this they do , that their doctrine about Juitifica, run ( which is wholly corrupt ) may appeare to hang the better together. 'e heard how they denied the Impu- tation of Chrìt.'sl ìghteoufuefs; & now they muff of necefl'itiealfo deny, Faith to be confidered here as an mitt u rent; for they know that it was cal led an Inflrument meerly upon the account of the Surety - Righteoufnefs of Chriff, which it wastoapply, to receive, &,toput on. They affirmed, that Faith properly taken was imputed unto Righteoufnefs , & by vertue_ot Chrifl's merites was accepted of God. for a Righteoufnefs, & was fo ac' counted , & now confequentiallythey muff fay , that Faith ( together wit' new Obedience, which they alto adde & conloine, as makingup one Righ" -' D teoufnefs) is to belooked upon , as a Condition, or caufa fine qua non. So- 1 cinus de 7uflif, tels us, that though that obedience , which me performe unto Chri ft, be neither the Effieient nor Meritorious caufe, of our jufli fication i7 eternal Salvation, yet it is the caufa fine qua non , as they fay. The fame he faith Sy nopf f uflif 2. p. 14. So doth Volkelius de vera lielig. lib.4. c.3. & Smalc: Coñtr: Franc . dtfp p. 103. So the IZemonflrantsin their Apologie . 112. Faith (fa t the A .y}j',{y¡ e CE .0%41-le t,, x. ,. ì Yt;
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