boo Chrifi's Righteoufnefs the objeEt of Faitb. C H A P. 33, vered with which , he may reft confidente of acceptance , and fo may with full peace of mind reft here, and relye upon it. As alto it ferveth exceeding- ly to abate man in his own eyes , and to make him for ever keep a low farle and walk humblie before this God , and give Him the Glory ofall. Hence this Righteoufnefs is called the kighteou fnefs of Faith , er of Chrift beleeved in, and laid hold on Rom. 4: x 3. 41' the Righteoufnefs of God, which is by faith of jefus Chrifl R..om. 3: U. Phtl. 3:9. ¿c a ff ìghteou fne`s through the faith of Chrifl, ibid. All which & the like expreffions do ni,anifefAly fay , that faith faith hold on á Righteoufnefs , even on the Righteoufnefs of God. And this Righteoufnefs is fáid to be unto all , 6- upon all them that beleeve Rom. 3. 22. El YT 644 1,:q.1 174 X" TtS. And imputed or reckoned upon their (core. Korn. 4: 24.. Mr. Baxter in the forecited book Cath. Theol. §. 131. faith that the meaning of this R, m. 4: 24. is no more , but that God reputeih , or judgeth us Righteous. But how can he repute us Righteous , unlefs we have a Righ- teouinefs, either of our own , -or from Tome other : of ourfelveswe have not a Righteoufnefs , unlefs he account beleeving all our Righteoufnefs , a- gainft which we havefaidenough above ;, and the very words of the text will not admit of this gloffe , as was allo shown above. if it be the Righteoufnefs of Chrift , who was delivered for our Offences , and was railed againe for our Julification verf 25. then it is a fit obje& for faith tolay hold on , it. being Chrift's Surety - Righteoufnefs, or the Righteoufnefs, which he per- formed & wrought out, when he was delivered for our offences; and which' was publickly declared to be accepted , whAa he was railed againe for our Juflification. And whatever Mr. Baxter think , this is , and mull be fo far made our owne , through the gracious Imputation of God, that the Righ- teous God,whofe judgment is to according -to truth ;may pronunce us Righ- teous , and accept of us, as Inch, But faith he , Imputing Righteoufnefs tous, is a confequent ati ( after faith) of God as judge, and not an antecedent dona- tion. ] Yet it is fug h a confequent aet of God as necelTarily prefuppofeth God's free antecedent Donation : for it is God's reckoning that Righteouf- nefs upon the beleevers fcore, in order to the Juflifying of him, thereupon; and becaufe this Righteoufnefs mull be given , we not having it of ourfel- ves, there muff a free donation antecede, and this groundeth Faiths ac- ceptingthereof, and receiving of it. And himfelf immediaily before this, faith that God , giving us all theefíic, or Salvation merited, in it Jeif proper- ly, is faid alto not unfitly to give us the merit or kighteoufnefs, which procured them , that is , as it war paid to God for us , to procure them. And if fo , why doth he inveigh fo much, in the foregoing pages , againft the orthodox dottrine of Imputation ; feing he cannot but know , that they do not fay , that God doth give us the very habits of holinefs (as he fpeaketh there) which wereia Chrift, nor the trament albs which he performed , nor'the very fuf- ferings which he under -went, nor the Relation of RighteottsSatirfatfory 5 Meritorious , as it was that numerical relation , which immediatly refulted from Chrifl's own habits , ads and fufferings : They dreame of no Inch Tranflation of accidents. But only fay, that feing (as Mr. Baxter here & elfewhere faith ) thisfatisf4lory Righteoufnefs was paid to God for them, and
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