'4,64 We snuf not bait to any Righteoufnefswitbinatr, C 1-3 e P. y, at holinefs a ,1u flifying of ur , for this is but ratable to him, who would con.. found all. This is all he fpeaketh to this matter in this place : But thereafter Sea. S. of tnerite ( n, t 96. ) he tels us , .It it a great que Ilion , whether a man may trulì to his own Faith, IZepentanceor Holinefr. And should think , that no ortho- dox man should once make a quell-ion about it ; but should rejea the very in. finuation of fuck a thing with dereffation : Icing t ìng.to there things is the native confequentof the Poprrb, Socinian & Arminian errour about ju- flification ; or of all , who (peak of`the imputation of. Faith &c. as our Righteoufnefs, in !lead of the imputation of the Righteoufnefs of Chriff. What anfwere giveth he ? But fomemen (faith he) will trouble the world with unexplained wards, Where no fober men differ. Anf. The words are plaine enough, and need no explication , & every ordinary Chriflian underhand their mea- mng.; but againft fuch, as -will Peek knots in rushes and raife duff in the moft clearaire, for their own ends , there is no remedie. I am afraied the point of difference shall be found fuch here, as that our agreement shall not be ex- peaed in ¡hafte, unlefs our fobriety be fuch , as will make us embrace in- con finences. Let us hear, what he faith. No wife ntan can dream, that we may truft to thole for more than their proper part ar that we may truft them to do any thing proper to God , toChrifî, to the Spirit, to the promife 15c. And to ufe the phra fie of Tru- fling to our own Faith , or holinefs , when it foundeth abfolutly , or may tempt the hearers to think, that they may truft them for God's part , or Chrifl's part not only for their own,is a dangerousdeceiving courfe. Anf, lt is true, no wife man will fay , that we may waft to thefe for more than their proper part , but when we are miftaken about their proper part , & conceive them to have that place & part , which they have not , and accordingly truft unto Them, do we not amine ? And Mr. Baxter maketh it their part to to the immediat meritorious caufe ex patio '( which heotherwayes expreffeth to be the Pote- native Condition) of Uglification & Salvation : which we fay is the part of Chrift & his Righteoufnefs alone : And lure ,, who ever shall wall unto them for this part , which according to the Gofpel is Chrift's part, truft unto them for more than their proper part. Neither is it any dangerous or deceiving courfe, to fpeak thus, when the/meaning is obvioufly known (except to fuch as have wit enough to darken things) to be this, that we muff not Trutt to Faith &e. as the price, the merite, ex patto (as perfea obedience wzs un- der the firft Covenant ) of our JuLiification, Adoption, & Salvation. But it is a moft dangerous & deceiving courfe,to call them only Conditions, or caufe fine quibus non , when in the .meane time , they are made to have the fame place in the New Covenant that perfect obedience had in the old ; & are-made our Gofpel - Righteoufnefs, for which we are juftified yea & put in the fame place ,that the Orthodox put Chrift & his Surety Righteoufnefs, that is, to be the immediat ground , formal caufe, Ratio formalir objettiva of our Juftification. 'What more ? But that really they may be wafted , for their own part, and muff be fo,a no fober perfon will deny : for foto beleewe , obey, pray to God °"
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