'92. The Formal Caul of' ? it there things will I concern my felf, though I judge what was mentioned in the laut place, to be molt proper and fignificant.. The fubftance of the enquiry wherein alone we are con-. cerned is 5 what is that Righteoufnefswhereby, and inhere th., a, Believing (inner, is jufl'ified before God ; or wilikereon he is accepted\vith God,,hath- his fins pardoned, is received into Grace and Favour,, and bath a Title given him unto the Heavenly Inheritance.: I (hall no otherwife, propofe this en- quiry, as knowing that it contains the fubffance of what con- vinced timers do look after inand by the Gofpel. And herein it is agreed by all, the Socinians only excepted, that the ProcatarIlical,or procuring caufe of the pardon of our fins and acceptance with God, is the fatisfa Lion and me- rit of ,Chriff: Howbeit it:cannot be denied, bnt that fame retaining, the names of them, do feem to renounce or disbe- lieve the things themfelves. But we need not to take any, notice thereof, until They are free more plainly to exprefs their minds; But as concerning the Righteoufnefs it felf en- quired after, there feemsito be a difference among them, who yet all deny it to be the Righteoufnef of Chrif imputed unto, us... For thofe of the Roman Churc& plainly fay, that upon the infufîon of an habit of Grace, withthe expulfion.of fin and the Renovation of our natures thereby, which they call the Aft yuflification,we are a&ually juftified before God, by our own works of Righted fne f? Hereon they difpute about the merit and fax isfaorinefs of thole works, with their condigä nity of. the Reward of eternal life. Others as the Socinians openly.difelaim all merit in our works; only force, out of Re- verenceas I fuppofe,unto the Antiquity of the word,andunder the fhelter of the Anlbíguity of its.fignáfiçati_on,. have faintly attempted an accommodation with it. But in the fubitance of what they affent unto this purpofe, to the beft ofmy under - ftandíng they are all agreed. For what the Papis call Jul itia °perum, the Righteoufnefs of works,they call a perfanal inherent Evan-
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