C H A P. 4. What Law it is , b; which we are not jtef :fte'd. +71 upon as all our proper & immediat Righteoufnefs , upon the account of which we are to receive pardon & Right to life. 4. He faith. That it was not Adam's Covenant of Innocencie,. or perfeRior, which the jewes thus trufled to, or Paul doth 'peak againfi , as to jup) f cattcn . (though a minore ad majus, that is alfo excluded ) for the jewes knew, that they were finne; s, d?' that God pardoned fin , as a Merciful God , 6` that their Law had Sacrifices c for Pardon d? Expiation with Confejons &c. But they thought, that fo far as God had made that Lair fuifi c.ient to Political ends , etoTen;poral Re- wards di Punishments, it had been fnfftcient to Eternal EZewards (i.9.' Punishments, &that of it felf, e not in meer fubordinationto the typified Melf ah. Anf. Though the jewes knew , that they wete tanners, yet they did alfo fuppofe, that by their works of obedience to the Law Moral as well as Ceremonial , they might make amends , & fo think to be juflified & par.ioned thereby , and that God would accept of them , & grant them life for their own Righte- oufnefs fake , & therefore did they labonrefo much to eftablish their own Righteoufnefs, & followed after the Law of Righteoufnefs, & fought Righ- teoufnefs ,. as it were by the works of the Law. What Mr. Baxter talks he- re of the ;ewes not ufing mf that Law , in fubordination to the Typified M el- flab , bath need of Explication : for as to his fenfe of it , we fee no ground thereof in all the Apottles difcourfe. 5. He faith , That the thing , which Paul difproveth them by, is. I. That the Law was never made for fuck an End. Anf.- Yet he Paid , that the man , which doth thofe things shall live by them. Rpm. io: S. Levit. 18: g. Gal. 3: 12. & that thedoers of the Law are juflified Rpm, z: 13. And therefore fpea- keth of that Law , which accordingtoits primitive institution , was made for fuch an end z. faith he. That even then it flood in fubordination to .kedemp- lion dr free given life. Anf This we cannot yeeld to, in Mr. Baxter: fence, often mentioned, for Paul no where giveth us to underEtand , that their obedience to this was their immediat Righteoufnefs , & Condition of juttifiation, & the meritorious caufe (ex patio) of their Right ro Chrift, & to life &c. 3. faith he. That the free Gift or Covenant of Grace, containing the pronsifeof the Meffiah , and Pardon d? life by him , was before the Law , and juflified Abraham i others without it. Anf. It is true, this Argument did par - ticularly militate against the Ceremonial Law; Yet , this not being the A- pottles onely Argument, & other Arguments reaching the Moral Law , as well as the Ceremonial, we mutt not limite the Apottles difput only to the Ceremonial Law. 4. faith he. That their Law mas fo fltick, that no man could perfecâly keep it all. Anf. Adde alfo, that they could not.perfedly keep any one command r hereof. -5. faith he. That every fin deferveth death indeed, though their Law punished not every fin tnith death by the Magifírate. Anf. Anc this holdeth true of the Moral , as of the Ceremonial Law. 6. faith he. That their Law was never obligatory to the Gentile world , who had a Lam written in their hearts ; dT therefore not the common way of juflifcation. Anf. The Apostle maketh no fuc h conclufion, that therefore it was not the common way of ju- flification , for this would fuppofe, that it were the way of juflification unto them, whichis direEily against the Apottles difput. 7. faith he. That their Maim 3 Law, <.
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