H A P. Z9'. Repentance no Conditions of ` ltf if cation.' ó alone; ( as it is by our way ) for both are looked upon asdifpofitive caufec , and as parts therefore of the material caufe, aid as proper frteflative condi- tions, Off as perfeEt obedience was under the Old Covenant. And what ever difference be acknowledged to be betwixt them , as to their Erïence & Aptitude, whereby Faith is faid to be an acceptance of the gift formally ,Re- pentance not fo,in its averting aCt ( as Mr. Ba eter is fpeaking Cath.Theol, ubi fupra Se&. XII. n: tot: ) whatever it may be as to other amts yet they are both made formal l oteitative conditions , as is faid,, & fo folely confidere,.d, as works done by us : and all finch as was evidenced above , make the re- ward of debt & give ground of boafting ; becaufe, being our formal works, they are made the immediate,& formal legal ground of our Jufiification, being made our i;r,mediatt!, formal & perfe&.Gofpel- Righteoufnefs; as was Peen above. 12.. Adde to there. That if Repentance have the fame Intereft in J 1fifi- cation , that Faith hath , God cannot be beleeved on, as the j.ullifier of the ungodly, contrare to ko,n.4: 5. for Faith & Repentance are hereby made the mans perfonal Righteoufnefs , and Mr. Baxter tels us Confe ff p.46. n. 38. , that there is no Juci) thing in rerum natura', as a true kighteoufnefs, which doth not for maliter:make the perfon jo far (Zighteous. Now a Righteous man can not be an ungodly man ; that were a contaadietion. It is not here enough to fa), that the man is ungodly before he be j uftified ; for in the acts of juflifving ,or while he is a juflifying, he is confidered , not as ungodly , but asRighte ous, yea antecedenter to his being Juftified , he is confidered as a Righteous man , & is therefore juflified becaufe Righteous in himfelf, having perfor- med the conditions , whereby he becometh perfonally Righteous': And the- refore while he is juflified, God doth not juftifie an ungodly man.- But it will be faid , that this will as well follow upon our way. I Anf. . Not at all, be- caufethough we place Faith in priority ofNature , before Juf1itication, yet- we make not faith a perfonal Righteoufnefs; fo that while the beleever is juflified , a man guilty in himfelf& void of all Righteoufnefs in himfelf, is juflified ; fo that God juflifieth an ungodly man. But it will be faid. By our way, the beleever is confidered as clothed with Chrift's Righteoufnefs;, & upon that account, cannot be called nor accounted an ungodly man. I e5nf: He is full, notwitftanding an ungodly man in himfelf, havingnothing, wherewith tofatisfie juftice , or to procure Peace to himfelf but what he hathimputed to him , from a Cautioner : And thus God is luftifier of the _ungodly , in himfelf, t hat by his faith proclaimeth himfelf fuch,& one that is not in cafe to pay one farthing of his own debt. Other Arguments may be brought from our foregoing debate againft the Imputation of Faith, in a proper fenfe, and Faiths juftifÿingas a work, I shall now proceed to examine what is alledged fòr the Intereft of Re- pentance. Obj. t. Mr, Baxter. In his Confeffion pag. ;7. n. 19. citeth force paflages of Scripture, whereby he thinks to prove , that Repentance is made by God, in the Gofpel , a proper Condition of our fires general Pardon of fin , as well as Faith is. The fi.rft whereof is Luk 13: 35. But this I judge is mifcited there being,.nothing there 3 that looketh here away .poffibly it should be k.
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