A treatise of justifying righteousness in two books ... : all published instead of a fuller answer to the assaults in Dr. Tullies Justificatio Paulina ... / by Richard Baxter.

Animadvers.

You speak of a twofold Righteousness, requisite and neces∣sary unto Justification; but (so far as I can judg) this Doctrine is not founded upon Scripture. For that shews us, that Christ's Satisfaction merely is the Righteousness whereby we are justi∣fied, though Faith be required on our part, that it may be im∣puted to us as ours, that so we may be justified by it. Faith is the condition whereby we are made partakers of that Righte∣ousness, viz. Christ's Satisfaction; and in that respect we are said to be justified by Faith, Rom. 5. 1. with Acts 13. 39. But that Faith is a distinct Righteousness, by which, together with Christ's Satisfaction, we must be justified, seems to be as if we should make the Medicine and the applying of it two things co-ordinate each with other, when as the one is but subordinate and subservient, as it were, to the other, to work the cure; the

Medicine being to no purpose, except it be applied. It cannot, I think, properly be said, that we are cured partly by the Medi∣cine, and partly by the Application, but by the Medicine as ap∣plied: So neither is it proper to say, that we are justified partly by Christ's Satisfaction, and partly by Faith, each of them be∣ing a distinct Righteousness whereby we are justified, but that we are justified by Christ's Satisfaction as our only Righteous∣ness in that respect; yet not by it simply considered; but as that whereby it is made ours, that we may be justified by it.