Imputation of °hriff'.r I ?ighteoufne f . 549 I. That he never returns that anfwer unto it, no not once, which fome think isthe only ..anfwer, whereby it may be fítisfied and removed : namely, the necefJty of our oznn perfonal Rigbtebufzef3 and Obedience or Works in order unto our yuflifzcation before God. For that by Faith without Works, he underflandeth Faith and Works, is an unreafonable fup. pofition. If any do yet pretend, that lie hath given any fuch anfwer; let them produce it ; as yet it bath not been made to appear. And is it not ftrange that if this indeed were his Do &rine, and the contrary a miftake of it, namely, that our perfonal Righteoufnefs; Holinefs, and Works had an influence into our juftification, and were in any fort our Righteoufnefs before God, therein; that he who in an emi- nent manner every where preffeth the necjity of them, fheweth their true nature and ufe, both in general and in particular Duties of all forts, above any of the Writers of the new Teftament, fhould not make ufe of this truth in anfwer unto an obje&ion wherein he was charged to render them all needlefs and ufelefs? His Do&rine was urged with this obje&ion as himfelf acknowledged, and on the account of it reje &ed by many, Rom. io. 3, 4. Gal. 2. 3. He did fee and know that the corrupt lufts and depraved affe&ions of the minds of many would fupplythem with fübtile arguings againft it. Yea he did forefee by the Holy Spirit; as appea- reth in many places of. his Writings, that it would be per- verted and abufed. And furely it was highly incumbent on him to obviate what in him lay, thefe evils, and fo fiate his Do&rine upon: this obje&ion, that no countenance might . ever be given untoit. And is it not ftrange that he fhould not on this occafion, once at leaft, fomewhere or other, give an intimation,: that although he reje &ed the works of the Lair, yet he maintained the necety of Evangelical Works in order unto our yufifcation before God as the condition of it, or that whereby we are juttified according unto the_ Gofpel. If
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