Looking uvf.o !fefm, Boo.ic IV· he inftituted thac Sacrament called the Lords Supper; now it was that after fupper he made his farewell Sermon, rarely mixt offadnefs and joye>,and ftudded with myfteries as with emeraldr J now it was, that after Sermon he bten:-ed his difciples, and prayed forth em , and then having {ung an hymn, he went out into the mount of olives, wh.ere in a garden he began his {offerings. On thefe palfages I had thought to have enrarged, but I fee the book {wells under my hands; a,nd now that I am drawing neare Chrifls .fufferi ng.s, I {ball only touch one point, which hitherto I have pretermitted, and is the moft comprehenfive of any palfage I <;an touch, • Many queftions are about the holine/[c, or righteoufr~e/[e, or oh~ dience of Chrift. As whether it belong to us ? and ,whether it be the marcer ofour jufrification ? and whether Cluifi was bound ' to obferve the law ofworks as a Media tour, or only as a meer man? and whether we are not juftified by the paffive righteoufnelfe ofChrift only? andfeeing now we are dtfcovering Chri~s ad:ings in reference to our fouls falvation, we cannot palfe.this maine bufinetfe, whereof much relates to Chrifis life, as well as to his conception, or birth , or death, or fu& ferings. ·---~------' SECT. 2.• Of the dijlinfUons ~ - or foveral divijions 6f Ch'riii · 1 rightmtjne{[e. · FOr the better underll:anding of Chr.iils ·righteoufnelfe, we · ufually dill:inguiih, that Chriftsrighteoufnefs is. either that : righteoufnefs mherent in him, or perfor.med by him 1 th~righteoufndfe performed by him, is either ht> fu!filli!Jg the cpmmandments, or his fatisfying the curfe of the law. ·· .The fame : . diil:intl:ion is given by others in thefe tearmes, Chrifts righteoufnefs is eith<!r his origin·al conformity, or his ad:ive · anJ paflive . obedience unto the law: his or i}nal conformity, is that gracious . H.lhere.nt difpofition in Chri!l from the firfi inftant of his conceptton,-, whereby h~'was habitually conformable to the law; and : ~mm 3 _ this ,
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