what C H A P. 5. works are excluded in f új ?if caticr : 413 mediat ground , and meritorious Caufe (ex patio) of our juftification & Salvation ? Where he teacheth , that Chrift's .Righteoufnefs is no other - wife ours, than as purchafing the New Covenant , wherein our own per - fonal Righteoufnefs is made the Poteftative Condition of our jollifica- tion & Salvation ? And yet thefe and feveral other Particulars of this alloy doth N1r. Baxter hold forth , as taught, in Scripture; as bath been leen elfewbere, C I-I A P. V. Works excluded in Juflification are not works only done before Faith, nor perfet works required in the Law of Innocency, nor outward works only. THe other Evafion , which fuch , as plead for the Intereft of Works in luftification , fall upon, to evite the dint of the Apoftle's argueing & concludings again}t Works , is , That by the works of the Law which Paul excludeth from ju(tification, works are meant, which are done before Converfion & Faith, by the ftrennth of Nature; & nor the works of grace done atter. This is the Evafion of Bellarrnine & others. But againft this we have thefe Reafon s to propofe. I. When the Scripture faith , we are luftrfied by faith , themeaning iS' that fo loon as afoul beleeveth in Chrift, by a true Faith, he is justified befo- re God : But this opinion faith , That a man is not justified when he belee- veth in Chrift; No not until( he performe Works of Righteoufnefs after he bath beleeved : And thus , we may conceive a man CO be a beleever , & yet not to be juftified ; which is contrary to the Gofpel 2. If we were justified by the Works of Regenerar perlons , we shóúld% be justified by works , that are imperfect ; and confequently by an impeded . Righteoufnefs : for thefe works being made our Righteoufnefs , if we be jri flified by them , as our Righteoufnefs , we mutt be justified by an irnperfeci' Righteoufnefs; for they are riot perfect, neither as to parts; nor as to de. grees. Efai. 64:. 5. 1. job. 1: E, 1o. 1. Ding. 8:46: 2. Chron. 6: 36. Ecct ft is 20: 3. Regenerat perfons have renunced their own Righteoufnefs", `in the matter of juftification before God ; therefore they judged , that they were not juftified thereby : And this is regiftrate in the word for our Inftruftion , & example ; that we may learne allo to renuncc our own works in this bufi- nefs. The Antecedent is clear from thefe Inftances (t) David Paying Pfal. i,a: 3. If thou Lord shouldejl markiniquity, o Lord, who shall fiand : And in op- pofrtion to this , he betakes himfelf to free Remifíìon, fay ing verf. 4. But the- re it forgivenefs with thoe. So Pfal. 143: z. And enter not into judgement with thy fervant; for in thy fight ¡hallno man living be juflifi"ed. So that it God should rater in judgment with the heft, even with his fervants, they could not ex
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