Keach - Houston-Packer Collection BT155 .K4 1698

Et)e Otfpiap ei0t0oüci ?ace : Or, Anfw. The Vanity' of which, and how er- roneous it is, we have (hewed fom.e time See the fnce *. Marrowof They fay, Chrift hath merited__ a New offüic. Law, oreafier Terms and Conditions, thatour Faith, Obedience, and Good Works' may Ju ftifie, and Save us ; but what faith Paul, All boafting is excluded; not legal boafting only,but all boafting, and caufe of boafting, but by their New Law boafting is let in. Moreover, he Pays, If it be of Grace, it vs not ofWorks ; and 3óm.1 z.6. if it be of Works, it is not ofGrace ; or elfe Grace is no more Grace, and Works nomore Works. Bre- thren, Works cannot mix with Free Grace ; they are direetly contrary to eachother in their Nature befides, thefeMen forget that weare /.5.18, Juftified alone by the Obedience and Righteouf- Iy. nef of one, (even as we were made Sinners by the Difobedience of one) and that is by the Righteoufnefs bf Chrift imputed to us ; for it was by the Difobedience of Adam, as imputed to us, that webecame Sinners. In aword, Chrift hathwrought out a Righ- teoufnefs for us, which is put upon us, or ac- counted, or imputed to us, and not that Chrift merited a Law, that a Juifying Righteouf- nefs might be wrought out in us, or byus, in ic>'or.z.3o conforming to that New Law Who of God is made unto as Wifdom, and Righteoufnefs, and Sané1 ifcation, and Redemption : Not only that his Righteoufnefs, is the Meritorious Caufe of our ßrítification; as Mr. Clark affirms, p. 104. but the 'Material Carafe thereof, or that by which weare Juftified, noother Righteoufnefs but

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