-CH A P. ;. T nisi ff nit lean to any R ;gbt eau fnefi wtahï, t 451. Churches. And further, fome might think , that if Mr. Baxter did aright lament, that any were proudly conceited of their own gorrdtlefs, he should not have laid doEtrinal grounds for fomenting of this pride ; nor shoved such an obje&ion againti himfelf, as he doth here ; for no than can rightly la- ment at the praeti.ce of that dottrine , which htmfelf embraceth Si tea - cheth. . He proceedcth (n. 177. ) Whatever is of God is good : if whatever it good i3 laudable or praise worthie, ä,^ meriteth to be efteemed as it is. Anf. True , K: therefore God , who is the Author thereof, should have ct,e glory , & it should be esteemed , as it is, to the glory of God , & not to puff us up with proud conceits , or to be the ground we leane to, in order to be justified 8 accepted of God. He addeth ( n. 178. ) Ail the SanElified are inherently righ- teous, but with an imperfeát Righteoufnefs, which will no further juflifie them in judgment, Pave only against this Accufation , that they are unholy. Anf. Mr. Baxter then is much to blame , who will have this FtnperfeEt Righteoufnefs to be a perfeft Righteoufnefs , as being our Gofpel Righteoufnefs; and the Potefla. tive condition of our Justification& abfolution at judgment, and fo the imtnediat & foie formal ground of our Justification before God. But this anfwere is alto impertinent for thefe he here writteth againft, fpeak not of particularjuítilication , from this or thatfalfe Accufation ; but of that jufti- firation before God , whereof Paul treareth, in his Epiftlesto the &Zomans Galdatians, & which is a justification of the ungodly. I,om. 4: S. He addeth (n: 179. ) There is no ß.Jghteoufnefs, which will not juflifle him,' that hath it in tantum , fo far as he is Righteous : for the contrary is a contradi- Elton for to be jufl, is to be ju izflable. Anf. This is fick of the fame imperti- nency with what went before : for the quellion is not concerning;a particu- lar Righteoufnefs, & a particular justification , _upon that account; but of a general jullification , as to our flare & that from the juft accufationof Law .& jut }ice, under which we Rand by Nature , in reference to which , all our inherent Righteoufnefs , how great fo ever it -be, is no ground , nor part of the merite , or formalis ratio of chat. Paul had no (mall share of this Righ- teoufnefs , when he laid , he knew nothing by himfelf : And fret he addeth Yet am I not he cby jttßified r. Cor. 4: 4. and we would fay the fame, &- fpeak after this manner, if Mr. Baxter would futfer us. Next ( n. IS I. for I So.) he faith. All the Righteoufnefs , which formally jultifiet h us, it our own, or on out selves, where oc juflifeth us : for to be made jtitt or jutlified , in the frft fenfe confritutìvly , it nothing elfe, but to be made fuel), æs are perfonally themselves,juft. Pardon of fin is made our own , Right to Chrifi & glory is made oi<r own ; ihbgI Chrift's Righteoufnefs was theonly meritorious cause of all this; which therefore is di' may be called our Material- Righteoufnefs, as that ,which meriteth it, is the matter. Anf. There feemeth to be nothing here , but confufion for (I) he fpeaketh ambiguouíly, when he faith, that all that Righteoufnefs, which formally juttifieth us, is our own, or on ourfelves; for this may be -true, whether by that Righteoufnefs, he - mean the Surety. Righteoufncfvof Ch rift ( which he doth not meane,. for heis too much again the imputation of that, as we have feen) beeaufe we K.k k 3 fad' , .. rrr
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