400 The Exclufion of all forts of Works then of Works, was not of Grace, no more is it at prefent. (3.) There would then have been Merit of Works, which is nom excluded. Anfw. Such a Merit as arifeth from an equality and proportion between Works and Reward, by the rule of commutative Juflice, would not have been in the Works of the firf} Covenant ; and in no other fenfe is it now re- jeó ed by them that oppofe the Imputation of the Righte- oufnefs of Chrift. (4.) All is now refolved into the Merit of Chrf, upon the account whereof alone, cur own Perfonal Righ -, teoufnefs is accepted before God unto our Yuflification. Anfin. The Queftion is not on what account, nor for what reafon it is fo accepted, but whether it be or no ; feeing its fo being is effeftually confiitutive of a Covenant of Works, CHAP. XIV. The Exclufion of all forts of Works from an interefi in ?uflification. What intended by the Laze, and the Works of it, in the Epi- files of Paul. WE fhall take our Fourth Argument from the exprefs Exclufion of all Workj of what fort foever from our Juflification before God. For this alone is that which we plead; namely, that no AAs or Works of our own, are the Caufes or Conditions of' our Juftiñcation ; but that the whole of it is refolved into the Free Grace of God, through Jefus Chrift, as the Mediator and Surety of the Covenant. To
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