a Re ¡walla, no Condition of 7rtfi=ifcation. C A P. 29 ice, than they : 1 fuppofe likewife , that he will grant Repentance to -be bur. a Modification of Faith , as well , as Love & Gratitude : and then I .would know , how Repentance can be faid to be as proper a Condition of Jufììfica- Lion , as Faith is ? Sure, if it be as proper, it mull have as peculiar an in- tereff fin this peculiarity of Interelt cannon refped its aptitudemeerly but its de1'g!2ed & appointed flare, in that office ; otherwaye,S the objection, which he moved , andanfvf'ered, should have this fenfe feing Faith bath a peculiar aptitude to this office; therefore it tuft have a peculiar aptitude .JO. this office , which were non fenfe. Now that Repentance -hash not ,the farne lntereft in Juftification, that Faith bath we judge evident frorii thefe grounds. I. The Scripture tels us , that we are joitified by Faith , and that feveral times, & not only faith it but proveth it , as we law above : But it no whe- re faith , that we are jullifiedby Repentance. And reafon would require, that fuch as fay that Repentance Filth the fame lntereft in Juflification, that faith hath, should tell us , where it is laid , we are juftified by Repentance : for when it is thus faid of Faith , & no where rhus``faid of Repentance : the - fe muff be a vaft difference , as to their intereft in Juftification ; unlefs they can give usfome Scripture expreffions concerning the Intereft of Repentan. ce , xquivalent to this,, we are jufìified by Repentance. If it be faid. That this is equipollent when it is faid', Repent that your fins may be blotted out: d?' 11epe.'tance i? Rem1(Jion offins are joyned together & the like. I anfiver, Lea- ving the particular examination of thefe & the like paffages alledged untili afterward I shall only fay this at prefent. ( a) That juftification & Remif- 'Sion of firs are not every way the fame. Though Mr. Baxter hath feveral ti- mes faid it; yet in hisCatholick.Theolog. of Ged's Covenant &c. Sett. KI!I. n. 2.08. he faith our frill confutative jufìification is in its own Nature a Right to im- punity (& this , as he oft elfewhere tels us , is Remif on ) da to life or glory. Now what is befide a Right to Impunity , alfo a Right to life & glory , is more than Remfíîon of fins: And therefore the coniequencë from Remif- fon to Jufttficarion cannot (land. (z) In like manner, becaufe it is Paid 6: ;7- forgive & it shall he frrgiven you , it may be inferred, that for - giving of our Neighbourfome fault, that he bath done us, is the Condition of our Conftitutive JuftiFcation , & hath as great an intereiì in our Jufiification, as Faith it felt , and bÿ it we have as really Right -to impunity, and Right to life & glory , as by Faith. It is true, Mr. Ailcn will not think this very ab- furd who reafor eth f oat this fame raft-age , not farotherwife. In his di'', cotrrfe of the two Covenants. pag. sit. Yet I fuppofe , others will : & I doubt, if Mr. Baxter shall make this one & the fame thing with Faith., as he labour - eth in fits CatholickTheol. to make Faith & Repentance one. it will he faid, when we are laid to be Jufhibed by.Faith , it is all one , as if we were laid to be Juftified by Repentance : for Mr. Baxter cleared.) , Of God's Govern. Sc. tt Yli. how Faith & Repentance is --all on thing. I Anf. (t) if the Spirit of the Lord had but once laid , in bis word, that we were lufti- 'fìed by Repentance , we might then be allowed , to think of fuch xplica- rions, as might make either both one thing , or spew , .how both bath the fame
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