all things without him to be but losse and dung, let vs with the Apostle iudge them to be dung, that wee may win Christ; let vs disclaime all righteousnesse by them, that wee may bee clad with the righteousnesse of Christ. So shall our vnrighte∣ousnesse be hid, and our sinnes couered, and whatsoeuer im∣perfection is in vs, it shall not be imputed vnto vs.
Fourthly, in that he addeth, and may be found in him, I note that another branch of his reason why hee iudgeth all things, and so all his workes to be dung, is, that he might be found in Christ, that is, that when God shall come to iudge both the quicke and the dead, and enquirie shall be made what euery man hath done in his body, hee may be found in Christ, not in Moses, not in the flesh, not in any thing but in Christ. Whence I obserue, that either wee must renounce all confi∣dence in our owne righteousnesse, and iudge euen our very best workes in that respect to be but losse and dung, or else w•• shall not be found in Christ in that last and great day. For that which our Sauiour Christ spake in the dayes of his flesh vnto his Disciples then present with him, hath now also his vse to this our purpose. If any man, saith hee, will follow mee, let him forsake himselfe, and take vp his crosse, and follow mee. Let him forsake himselfe, that is, let him forsake all that hee hath, as Luke expoundeth it, all outward prerogatiues touching the flesh. In which place he signifieth, that he that would bee his disciple must put off all carnall affections, and renounce all carnall confidence, and so reioyce in him alone, as that no crosse, nor any thing shall take his reioycing from him. And euen so, he that will be found in Christ in that day, he must so reioice in Christ alone, as that he haue confidence in nothing else, but iudge them all to be losse and dung. Otherwise as well might he be Christ his disciple, which did not forsake all, as hee may bee found in Christ in that day, which doth no•• iudge all his workes to be losse and dung in respect of any righteousnesse by them.
Let this also be another motiue vnto vs to disclaime all righteousnesse by our workes: for as there is no righteousnesse by faith vnto him that claimeth righteousnesse by his workes, as before wee heard; so is there no saluation in that day vnto