Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…

138. So that here are three rewarding Covenants before us: 1. The Covenant or Law of Innocency rewarding man for perfection to the end; And this rewarded none but Christ: And it is false that we are rewarded by that Covenant, or justified by it, for Christ's fulfilling it. But it ¹justified Christ. 2. The Law or Covenant made only to and with Christ the Mediator: And this Covenant further rewarded Christ as Mediator, giving him all that it promised to himself and us, for his performing the mediatorial conditions. And so our Life is Christ's Reward. 3. The Covenant or Law of Grace (for it is the same thing in several respects that's called the Law and the Covenant), which giving Life on the condition of Faith, doth justify and reward Believers. And we are justified and rewarded by no other Law.

138. So that here are three rewarding Covenants before us: 1. The Covenant or Law of Innocency rewarding man for perfection to the end; And this rewarded none but Christ: And it is false that we are rewarded by that Covenant, or justified by it, for Christ's fulfilling it. But it ¹justified Christ. 2. The Law or Covenant made only to and with Christ the Mediator: And this Covenant further rewarded Christ as Mediator, giving him all that it promised to himself and us, for his performing the mediatorial conditions. And so our Life is Christ's Reward. 3. The Covenant or Law of Grace (for it is the same thing in several respects that's called the Law and the Covenant), which giving Life on the condition of Faith, doth justifie and reward Believers. And we are justified and rewarded by no other Law.

1. 1All the stir of the Papists is to prove that we have inherent Righteousness as well as pardon, which Protestants are as much for as they. The rest is de nomine justificationis, Malder. 1. 2. q. 113. a. 2. p. 572. Apostolus, 2 Cor. 5. non aliud vult quam Christum cui nullum debebatur supplicium, factum fuisse hostiam pro nostro peccato, ut nos qui apud Deum nihil merebamur, praeter. supplicium, justitia Dei fieremus in ipso; id est, gratis sine nostris operibus consequeremur per ipsius merita justitiam coram Deo.] What doth this differ from the Doctrine of the Reformed Churches. Idem ibid Quando Apostolus dicit multos constitui justos per unius obedienti significatur causa meritoria, non autem formalis: And so say we: But some call Christ's Righteousness the causa materials, meaning no more but that it is the matter of that Merit, for which we are justified; As if Adam had perfectly fulfilled the Law, his fulfilling it, had been meritorious of his sentential Justification, and yet the matter of his constitutive Justification; that is, of his Righteousness. And some unaptly call it the formal cause: But an unapt logical notion is not an error in Faith or Theology. Idem ib. p. 573. Quamvis x omnino rigida justitia solus Christus Dominus satisfactat; de condigno tamen, ita ut merces operi mono debeatur post Dei promissionem, meretur justus coronam justisi quam reddet in illa die justus judex: Est nostra justitia tota, totum meritum, tota satisfactio dependens a meito & satisfactione Christi. Still here is a wordy Controversy.