;k-.1 Arguments far l f ification .by .thy . and a Right unto Eternal Life. And if this can no other way be done, but by the inrptrtátion of the Righteoufneß of Chrif1 unto them, then thereby alone are they juttified in the fight of God. And this Affertion proceedeth on a fuppofi-. Lion that there is:aRighteoufnef required unto the Juftifi- cation of any perfon whatever. For whereas God in the Juflification of any, perfon,, doth declare, him to be acquitted from all crimes laid unto his charge, and to Band as Righteosis in his fight, it muff be on the confideration of a :Righteouf. nefs, whereon any man is fo acquitted and declared 5 for the Judgment of God is according unto Truth. This we have fufíi.. ciently evidenced before in thatjuri diéal procedure wherein the Scripture reprefènts unto. ,us the Juftification of a Believing firmer. And if there be no other Rigbteoufneßwhereby.we may be thus juftified,but only that of Chrift imputed unto us, then thereby mi.& we be juftifled or not at all. And if there be any fuch other Righteoufnefs,it mutt be our own, inherent in us, and wrought out by us.. For there two kinds inherent and imputed Righteoufnefs,our vim and Chrifis divide the whole nature of Righteoufnefs, as to the End enquired aftr. And that there is nofilch inhere#tRighteoufnef;no fuch R ighteoufnefs of our own whereby we may be juftified before God,I fhall prove in the firft place. And I !hall do it, firft from exprefs Teftimonies of Scripture, and then from the confederation of the thing it.fel£ And two things,I !hall premife hereunto. i. That I !hall not confider this Righteouíñefs of our own bfolute y in it felf, but as it may be,conceived to be improved and advanced by its Relation unto the fatisfa&ion; and merit o Chrií} , For many will grant that our inherent Righteouf aef is not of it felf fuffrcient to juftile us in the fight of God. But take it as it hath value and ;worth communicated unto it from the merit of . Chritt . and fo it is accepted unto that End,- and judged worthy of Eternal Life. We could riot nt Life Viand Salvation had not :gnitt merited that Grace for°
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