366 Repentance no Condition of Juffiftication. C H A P. 19. Mr. Baxter In his Confe f. p. 39, 40. feemeth to grant this whole Argu- ment, when he expreffethhimfelf thus. This I fay, that man may fee, I do not level Faith with Repentance , much left ( as they charge me ) with aElual external works of obedience , which in this firfi remiffion & jutification, I takenot to be fo much, as exiflent. `tii`hathe addethconcerning the Ratio fLrma!is,why faith or Repentance have fuch an intereft in our Pardon , to wit , becaufe God hark made them the Conditions of the promi fe ; cannot hinder our conclufion , until' firil it be proved , that God bath madeRt'penrauce loch a Condition , we are fpeaking here of the difference , that is betwixt the two , as to their Na- ture & Aptitude which he confeffeth ro bg very great , & alto as to their place & ule becaufe of the great difference , that is betwixt them , as to Na. ture & Aptitude. 4. If the Intereft of Faith be not , as it is a work , or inward grace . in- herent in the foul , hutas fuch a going out of the foul from it Pelf, & all its own ínherentgoòd , and from all external privileges , or what may be cal- led adherent perfonal good , unto an offered Mediator, that it may embra- ce -him , & lay hold on , and lean to his fide ju fjorie- Righreoufnefs ; then Repentancecannot share in this Intereft with it. But the former is true. The- refore &c. The Conne &ion may be cleared .from what is already laid : we are not fpeaking of that bere which Mr. Baxter will have to be the neereft formal reafon , nor of that only, which he will have to be its nature& aptitu- de : but of its Ufe & proper Aaings in this office , in reference to the end, Jufttfication ; which are fuch , as cannot agree to Repentance , as is mani- felt. ;-iimfelf tels us in his Confeff= p. 89, 9o. That he takes Repentance to be to our faith inChrift , as the breaking offfrom other Suitors d?" Lovers , & turning the mind to this one, is to Marriage. Whereby we fee, that though Repen- tance be- .neceffarily required , in one that is a beleever , and that faith can not be without Repentan fe; Yet Repentance hat h no place in the office of Juftification, it hat h no plaine formal & immediateinteref} in the receiving of Juitification ; as that turning of the minds from other Suitors CO that one bath no formal inrereft or place , in clofeing the Mártiitage Coveaant3 though it be a very necefhary prerequifire unto right clofing , confenting"t'he tnarna- ge Covenant. Thi'-giverh ground for anotherArgíiiment. ç. As upon the account that a woman bath changed her minds from other Suitors., to one, it cannot be laid or inferred , that therefore the Marriage Relation is made up with that one Suitor ; which is done only by a formal full & explicite Confent : fo upon the acco int that one is a penitent, it can- not be formally inferred , that that perron is in Covenant with Chrift , and is Juffified. Becaufe as Mr. Baxter bath told us , Repentance is unto -Faith, but as the womans changing her mind from otherSuirors to one,is to the con - f nting unto the Marriage.propofal. And if upon a Perfons being a Penitent it cannot be formally inferred, that he is in Covenant with God & a Jt,ftified perfon, then Repentance bath not that intereft in luftification , that Faith bath , for upon a mans beleeving , it can formally & immediatly be infer- red, that he is in Covenant , and is Juflif red. I fay formally ; becaufe con - fequentially it will alto follow, that a Penitent mar. (meaning one that is truely
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