For his Blood, when it cleanses away our sins, is not ours by Inhesion, therefore if it be at all ours to do that great Work, it must be so by Imputation. Remission of sins was to be preached in his name, Luk. 24.47. and In his name shall the Gentiles trust. Math. 12.21. This Name includes his Blood and Righteousness and these are made ours by Imputation. If any reply, ⟨p. 321⟩plainer proof is desired, I answer; Several things are to be considered by us; There is no one place in the Gospels to maintain Justification by our own Righteousness, or if there were, I shall be bold to say, that all the Protestant Churches in the World are bound to yield the Cause in this point to their Adversaries the Papists. Obedience to Gods Commandments is indeed the way to heaven, but it is no where made an ingredient into our Justification. That place, Math. 5.19. quoted by the Author, that Whosoever shall break one of the Least Commandments shall be the Least in the Kingdom of Heaven, if taken in rigour juris; were enough to shut all men out of heaven; it imports therefore, that sincere Obedience is necessary to those who will go thither: Again, the Evangelical Light brake out as it pleased the Father of Lights, gradually and successively. In Math. 16. Peter makes that famous Confession, Thou art Christ, and was by Christ called, Blessed, for it; and a little after Peter, as ignorant of Christ's Passion, would have diverted him from it, and for that was called, Satan: Christ's Passion was sure a most necessary thing, vet he knew it not. ⟨p. 322⟩Further, our Saviour tells the Apostles, that It was expedient for them, that he should go away; why so? Then the spirit should come, which should guide them into all truth, which should glorify Christ, which should take of Christs, and should show it unto them, Joh. 16.7, 13, 14, 15. Observe, the Spirit was to open and display the things of Christ; amongst others, his blood and righteousness in their glory, and true use to be made ours; and now it is no wonder at all, if imputed Righteousness be more fully laid down in the Epistles, than in the Sermons of our Saviour Christ himself; the wisdom of heaven reserved that fuller light, till the descent of the holy Ghost. Moreover, we must distinguish between the necessity of Christs imputed righteousness in it self, and the necessity of the knowledge of it:
For his Blood, when it cleanses away our sins, is not ours by Inhesion, therefore if it be at all ours to doe that great Work, it must be so by Imputation. Remission of sins was to be preached in his name, Luk. 24.47. and In his name shall the Gentiles trust. Math. 12.21. This Name includes his Blood and Righteousness and these are made ours by Imputation. If any reply, ⟨p. 321⟩plainer proof is desired, I answer; Several things are to be considered by us; There is no one place in the Gospels to maintain Justification by our own Righteousness, or if there were, I shall be bold to say, that all the Protestant Churches in the World are bound to yeild the Cause in this point to their Adversaries the Papists. Obedience to Gods Commandements is indeed the way to heaven, but it is no where made an ingredient into our Justification. That place, Math. 5.19. quoted by the Author, that Whosoever shall break one of the Least Commandements shall be the Least in the Kingdom of Heaven, if taken in rigore juris; were enough to shut all men out of heaven; it imports therefore, that sincere Obedience is necessary to those who will go thither: Again, the Evangelicall Light brake out as it pleased the Father of Lights, gradually and successively. In Math. 16. Peter makes that famous Confession, Thou art Christ, and was by Christ called, Blessed, for it; and a little after Peter, as ignorant of Christ's Passion, would have diverted him from it, and for that was called, Satan: Christ's Passion was sure a most necessary thing, vet he knew it not. ⟨p. 322⟩Further, our Saviour tells the Apostles, that It was expedient for them, that he should go away; why so? Then the spirit should come, which should guide them into all truth, which should glorifie Christ, which should take of Christs, and should shew it unto them, Joh. 16.7, 13, 14, 15. Observe, the Spirit was to open and display the things of Christ; amongst others, his blood and righteousness in their glory, and true use to be made ours; and now it is no wonder at all, if imputed Righteousness be more fully laid down in the Epistles, than in the Sermons of our Saviour Christ himself; the wisdom of heaven reserved that fuller light, till the descent of the holy Ghost. Moreover, we must distinguish between the necessity of Christs imputed righteousness in it self, and the necessity of the knowledge of it:
