3 3 c Arguments for f u.1ification by the it, in all that are to be juftified. It requires in like manner Repentance from dead worI s in all that believe ; as alto the fruits of Faith, Converfion unto God, and Repentance, in the works of Righteoufnefs, which are to the praife of God by Jefäs Chrifi ; with perfeverance therein unto the end. And all this may, if you pleafè, be called our Evangelical Righteoufnefs, as being our Obedience unto God according to the Gofpel. But yet the Graces and Duties wherein it loth confift, do no more perfeCtly anfwer the commands of the Gofpel, then they do thole of the moral Law. For that the Gofpel abates from the Holinefs of the Law, and makes that to be no fin which is fin by the Law, or approves abfo- lutely of lets intention or lower degrees in the Love of God, than the Law doth, is an impious Imagination. And that the Gofpel requires all theee things entirely and and equally, as the Condition of our Juflifcation before God, and fo antecedently thereunto, is not yet proved, nor ever will be It is hence concluded, That this is our Righteoufnef, according unto the Evangelical Lary which requires it, by this we are made Righteous, that is, not guilty of the non-performance of the condition required in that Law. And there things are Paid to be very plain. So no doubt they feemed unto the Au- thor ; unto us they are intricate and perplexed. However, I wholly deny that our Faith, Obedience, and Righteoufnef, con [idered as ours, as wrought by us, although they are all ac- - cepted with God through, Jefus Chrift'according to the Grace declared in the Gofpel, do perfectly anfwer the commands of the Gofpel , requiring them of us, as to matter, manner, and degree, and that therefore it is utterly impoflible that they fhould be the caufe or condition of our Jultifieation be- fore God. Yet in the Explanation of thee: things, it is added by the fame Author, that pur maimed and imperfect í-Righteos fnefs is accepted unto Salvation, as if it were every way abjolute and perfect, for that fo it fhould be, Chili.' bath merited by
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