The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two…

Mr. Baxter, in his Fourth Proposition, in his Preface to D. Tully, saith, that this Condition (viz. the Covenant of Grace, by which we have right to the benefits of it) is our Faith [mark it] or Christianity, as it is meant by Christ in the Baptismal Covenant, viz. to give up our selves in Covenant, believing in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, renouncing the contraries; and that though this consent to the Christian Covenant (called Faith alone) be the full ⟨p. 13⟩Condition of our first Right to the Benefit of that Covenant (of which Justification is one,) yet obediential Performances, and Conquest of Temptations, and Perseverance, are secondary parts of the Condition of our Right, as continued and consummated; he saith for Faith to be imputed to us for righteousness, Rom. 4. 22, 23, 24. Is plainly meant, that God, who under the Law of Innocency required perfect Obedience of us to Justification and Glorification, upon the Satisfaction and Merits of Christ, hath freely given a full Pardon and Right to Life to all true Believers; so that now by the Covenant of Grace, nothing is required of us to our Justification, but Faith, all the rest being done by Christ; and so Faith in God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, is reputed truly to be the condition on our part, on which Christ and Life by that Baptismal Covenant is made ours.

Observe, here is not a Word concerning Christ's Righteousness, or Faith in him for Righteousness. And hence worthy Mr. Troughton citing this passage of Mr. Baxter saith, By this Author, 'tis not Christ's Righteousness apprehended by Faith, justifieth us; but Faith it self, as including Obedience, i. e. the belief and practice of the Christian Religion is our Righteousness, by, and for which we are justified and accepted, Luth. Red. p. 8.