C n A P. 29. Repentance ne Condition of 3tuff ;f cation. ,,6° Mr. Durham in his Comment, on the ,Revel. iu that digreffion on Repentance; pag. 251. 2. Nor is the Queflion , whether the Lord call for Repentance as a duty ,.. at the hands offuch aseither are to be luftifaed, or are already Jultified ? for both thefe we willingly grant , as being divine truth es, richly confirmed in the Scriptures,. what ever Antinomians fay to the contrary. 3. Nor is thelaueftion , whether Repentance be a Condition of the Co- venant , or not ? For if by a Condition of the Covenant , we underftand every thing , that is a duty , required of the Covenanters, it is readily granted , as was Paid , that Repentance is a duty required of fuch as are really in Co- venant with God ; but if by aCondition of the Covenant be meaned a duty re- quired in order to the clofing of the Covenant , or entering in-to Covenant, - upon the performing of which the Covenant is immediatly doled & entered. into , thists denied ; and abundantly confuted by Mr. Durham , in the fore cited Digreflion. . 4. But the Quellion is , if Repentance bath the fame Place, Office , life & Confideration in Juftification , that Faith hath ; fo that it may be every way as well , & as fully called the Condition of Jufilification, as Faith is; & fo that it is called for in order to luftification , upon the fame account , and under the fame formality , that Faith is called for. Socinians & Arminianr (as we heard ab re,) join.e Repentance &Faith , in the fame Order &Pla- ee, & afcrib a fame Office Life & Power unto both , in order to jufli fi - cation. An Mr. Baxter telsusConfeff. pag. ;7. n. 19. That Repentance is. ma- de by God , in the Gofpel , a proper Condition of our trft general pardon of fin, a: well as Faith is. And he faith down a ground for this intereft of Repentance ( which , I fuppofe , will reach to the including ofother works all() ) in the foregoing n. IS. faying,a quarenus ad omne valet confequentla. If faith's for- mal interefl in pardon be , as it it the Condition of the ad of pardon , then what foever is fuch a Condition, mull have the fame Hind of formal interfifl , as faith. By the fir fl gencral purdon offin here , he meaneth Juftification ; for with him Remifïìon of fins & Juflification is all one thing. Atid yet afterward pag. 96. Conc1. 2.9. he hath words,which would feem to give force peculiar inter - eft unto Faith ; & (o contradift what is here faid, for he faith. If any fay, that. feing faith hath a peculiar aptitude tot his office , therefore it mull have a peculiar Interefl. I anfwere, fo it hath. For I. it doti, alone , without ( merites, or ) any pofitiveGofpel works of obedience (as fuch at !call) procure (as far as belongs to its office) our firfi full juflification. 2. The love of Chrig received, Gratitude dsrc. are but as modifications of Faith, which is called the receiving itfelf. Though fotne of them be diflinEt phyfical aEls, yet all the refl , morally confidered i are but ar it were, the modification of faith : I mean of that aft, which is the acceptance of Chrifl, (i.9" life freely given 17c. Now, I fuppofe , he will grant (as he dot h above, as we may fee) that Repentance hath not that peculiar aptitude ,. to this office , that Faith bath ; & confequently cannot have that peculiar intereft , as he confefl'eth : I fuppofe allo, that he will put Repentance , in the fame rank with Gofpel- Works of Obedience ; & confequently it mi. ff no more share of that fpecialInrereft, that belongeth to Faith,, in thisofli- ce
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