314 The Formal Caufe of fitfli cation.- teoufnefs that is originally and inherently his own. The mat; that doth them 'hall live in them.. If the Righteoufnefs that is imputed be the Ground and Foundation of-our Juftification, and made ours by that Imputation, ftate it how you will, that yilflifiCation is of Grace and not of the Law. However, I know no,t of any that fay we are accounted of God in yudi- ment perfOnally to hawe done what Chrift did 5 and it may have a fenfe.that is falfe namely, that God fhouldjkfige- us in our own perfOns tò have done thofe -Ms which we never dicl. Bilt what thrift did for us and in our ftead, is imputed and communicated unto -us, as we coalefce into one myftical perron with him by Faith,,, and thereon are we juftified. And this abfolutely overthrows all Juftification by ,the Law or the Works of it though the Law be eftabliftiecl, fulfilled and accomplifhed, that we may be juftified. Neither can any On the fuppofition of the Imputation of the Righteoufnefs of thrift truly ftated, be laid to merit their own Salvation. Satisfaaion and Merit are Adjunecs of the Righteoufnefs of thrift as formally inherent in ..his own per- fon and as fuch it cannot be transfufed into another. Where- fore as it is imputed Unto individual Believers, it bath not thofe properties accompanying of it which belong only unto its exifience in the ,perfon of the Son of God. But this was 1poken unto,before, as much alto of.what was neceflary to be here repeated. Thefe ObjeCtiomi I have in this place taken notice of, becaufe the anfwers given unto them do tend to the farther explana- tion of that Truth, whole confirmation by Arguments and Teftimonies of Scripture I fhall now proceed unto. CHAP.
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