A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God from the…

1. The placing of our Gospel-Obedience on the right foot of account, that it may neither be exalted into a State, Condition, Use, nor End, not given it of God; nor any Reason, Cause, Motive, End, Necessity of it on the other hand, taken away, weakened or impaired, is a matter of great importance. Some make our Obedience, the works of Faith, our Works, the Matter or Cause of our Justification; some the Condition of the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, s••• t•e Qualification of the person Justified, on the one hand; some exclude all the necessity of them, and turn the ⟨p. 101⟩Grace of God into Lasciviousness, on the other. To debate these Differences, is not my present Business: only I say, on this and other Accounts, the right stating of our Obedience, is of great importance as to our walking with God.

1. The placeing of our Gospel-Obedienceon the right foot of account, that it may neithr be exalted into a State, Condition, Use, nor End, not given it of God; nor any Reason, Cause, Motive, End, Necessity of it on the other hand, taken away, weakned or impaired, is a matter of great importance. Some make our Obedience, the works of Faith, our Works, the Matter or Cause of our Justification; some the Condition of the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ, s••• t•e Qualification of the person Justified, on the one hand; some exclude all the necessity of them, and turn the ⟨p. 101⟩Grace of God into Lasciviousness, on the other. To debate these Differences, is not my present Business: only I say, on this and other Accounts, the right stating of our Obedience, is of great importance as to our walking with God.

2. We do by no means, assign the same Place, Condition, State and Use, to the Obedience of Christ imputed to us, and our Obedience performed to God. If we did, they were really inconsistent. And therefore those who affirm that our Obedience is the Condition or Cause of our Justification, do all of them deny the Imputation of the Obedience of Christ unto us. The Righteousness of Christ is imputed to us, as that on the account whereof we are Accepted, and esteemed Righteous before God, and are really so, though not inherently. We are as truly Righteous with the Obedience of Christ, imputed to us, as Adam was or could have been by a complete Righteousness of his own performance. So