156 t4enuft not lean to any Righteoufnefs within us. C If A fay , that is made oùrs by imputation , in order to our juftification upon the account thereof : or whether he mean ourowninherent Righteoufnefs ; but then if this behismeanitrg,itisfalfe, that we are hereby formally juflified, unlefs he mean , as before , only a particular jultification , which is nothing to the point as was Paid. (z.) To be made jufi & to be /nib fied, are not for- mally the fame , but CO fuck only, who Love çonfufion. (3) He who is ma- de 01, is but conlfitt.tedjuflifiable, & is nor eoipfoconflitutivejuftified :But Mr. Baxter loveth his own Expretlions & Explications of them. (4) When he faith that to be jujiifced conflitutively it nothing else but to be made filch , ar are p.rfcnally themfelves jufl , he fpeaketh very indittinótly ; not only as con - founding, being made jtrfl & being jufii f ed , as if they were formally the fa- me; but alfo as not giving us to underfland , what he meaneth by thefe words perfonally thomJelves juff : Hereby he would feem to fay , that only by fomething inherent in our perfons , we are confiituted Righteous , & are juftified; and not by any thing imputed to us : And if fo, the ground of all Anti-evangelick boafting & glorying in ourfelves is laid. (5 ) Pardon of lin, as fuch , is neither a.making a lutt , nor a juftifying : and the Caine we fay of Right to Chris} & to Glory. (6) Chi ill's Righteoufnefs , according to Mr. Baxter,can not be called the meritorious caufe of our pardon , juttification,& Right to Glory &c. becaufe it is only made by him the meritorious caufe of the New Covenant, wherein pardon,Right to Chrift & to Glory are promi- fed upon New Conditions , & fo is made the meritorious Caufe of the con - neEtion betwixt the performance of thefe New Conditions , & the obtaining of Pardon.& that Right ; fo that by vertue of Chrift's Merites thefe New Conditions are made the proper & immediat meritorious caufe expaEtoof thefefavours.: And by this way, Man can not but boaft & glory in himfelf irnmediatly and give Chrift only fome remote far -off thanks , for procu- ring the New termes. (7) Chrift'sRighteoufnefscannot be called our Mate- rial Righteoufnefs, any other way, than as it hath purchafed the New Co- . venant, according to Mr. Baxter; & this being equally for all, Chrift's Righteoufnefs shall be the Material Righteoufnefs of the Reprobat , as well as of Beleevers :. And how can that be called ours, which is not ours; no.r our own , nor are we by it made perfonally jufi ourfelves ? as he fpoke befo- re. (S) According to this doótrine, Chrift Righteoufnefs meriteth to us an- other Righteoufnefs, which is our own & on ourfelves & by this we are for- mally jufti,fied : that is , according to what went before , & to what follo- weth , we are formally juilified by our own perfonal Inherent holinefs ( for of this, he is (peaking only) and yet that which he here mentioneth , as the Righteoufnefs, whichformally juftifieth us , is fail to be pardon of fin , & a Right to Chrift &to Glory, which formally is no Righteoufnefs at all , nor no where fo called in Scripture , & is but a confequent of that , which elfewhere he .calleth our Gofpel Righteoufnefs, and the Condition of ju- .fiification. Hegoethon (n. IS2.) He that it no caufe of any good work, isno Chri- Man , but a damnable wretch , 45' werfe than any wicked man I know in theworld : And he that it a.eaufe of it., mull not be denyed falfly to be a caufe of it. Nor a Saint
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