3334 Arguments for7uf ification'by the words, Serm. 1. fift. omn. fanCl. uid poteft of omnis humana jut itia coram Deo 2 nonne juxta Prophetam, velut pannars men f ruatus reputabitur ; &f diftinile judicetur,injuf itia invenie- tur omnis Juftitia noftra & minus habens. A man cannot be juftified in any fente by that Righteoufnef which upon Trial will appear rather to be an Vnrighteoufners 2. It is imperfect with refpeec unto every AEi and Duty of it, whether internal or external. There is Iniquity cleaving unto our holy things, and all our Righteoufnejs are as filthy raggs, If . 64.6. It hath been often and well obferved, that if a man, the beft of men, were left to choofe the belt of his works that ever he performed, and thereon to enter into Judgment with God, if only under this notion, that he bath anfwered and fulfilled the Condition required of him, as unto his Acceptation with God, it would be his wifeft courfe, ( at leaf} it would be fo in the Judgment of Bellarmin) to renounce it , and betake .himfelf unto Grace and Mercy alone. 3. It is imperfect by reafon of the Incurfion of actual (ins. hence our Saviour hath taught us continually to pray for the forgivenef?of our fins ; and if we fay, that we have no fin we deceive our felves ; for in many things we offend all.' And what confidence can be placed in this Righteoufnefs, which thole who plead for it in this caufe, acknowledge to be weak, maimed, and imperfect. I have but touched on thefe things, which might have been handled at large, and are indeed of great confederation in our prefent Argument. But enough hath been fpoken to manifeft, that although this Righteoufnef of Believers be on other accounts like the fruit of the Vine, that glads the Heart of God and man, yet as unto our Juftification before God, it is like the Wood of the one, a pin is not to be taken from it to hang any weight of this caufe upon. Two
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