534 The nature of yuf i ficatzon, as declared fit qua nitendum corans Deo, nimirum quce per jidem apprehen- ditur, at h&c imputata eft : Caufam etiam ofïendit cur jure nofira fiat, nimirum quia nos Chri fumes .& in Chriflo com- perimur 5 quia i itur infttiJumus in corpus ejus & coalefcimus cum illo in unam perfonam, ideo ejus juffitia not ra reputatur. De 7uflif Habit. cap.38. For whereas fomt: begin to inter- pret our being in chri jl, and being found in him fò as to in- tend no more but our Frofeflion of the Faith of the Gofpel, The Faith of the Catholic( church in all ages concerning the My [heal Union of Chrift and Believers, is not to be blown away with a few empty words and unproved Affertions. The Anfwer therefore is full and clear unto the general Exception, namely, that the Apoftle rejects our Legal, but not our Evangelical Righteoufnefs. For (i.) the Apoftle rejects, difclaims, difowns nothing at all, not the one, nor the other abfolutely, but in comparifon of Chrift, and with refped unto the efpecial end of Juftification before God, or a Righteoufnefs in his fight: (z_) In that fenfe he rejeth all our own Righteoufsrefs, but our Evangelical 'Righteoufnefs, in the fenfe pleaded for, is our own, inherent in us, performed by us. (3.) Our Legal Righteoufnefs, and our Evangelical, fo far as an Inherent Righteoufnefs is intended, are the fame, and the different ends and u(è of the fame Righteoufnefs, is alone intended in that diftinEtion, fo far as it hath fenfe in it, That which in refpe& of Motives unto it, the ends of it, with the efpecial caufes of its acceptance with God, is Evan- gelical, in refpe& of its original Prefçription , Rule, and Meafure, is Legal. When any can inftance in any Act or Duty, in any habit oreffe& of it, which are not required by that Law which injoyns us to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, foul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourfelves g they (hall be attended unto. (q..) The Apoftle in this cafe rejefts all the Works of Righteoufnefs which we have done, Tit, 3. 5. But our Evangelical Righteoufnefs confifteth in the
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