Chap..q..Sect.4 Looking utJto Jeftu, Booic IV. tent ions of his departure to prepare places for J1is Saints in heaven . .and in the meme white he would fend them the holy Ghdil:, to fupply his roome, tofurni!hthem with proportionable comfom, to enable them with guifts, to lead them into all truth, and to abide with them for ever. Is concluuon of at!, he gave them his bleffing, and prayed for them, and then having fung an hymne, he goes away, and prepares for his fufferings. . . . .2. Hitherto of_ the obedtence of Chnft; what was 1t but a vijible comrnentar; ofGods /,1w ? but now for its influence on us, by the abedience ofone, many [hall be made righreom Obferve, 1he R~m. S· 19· righteoafnef{e of the law fulfilled, andfully accomplijhed in the per[on of Chri[f, u a•· truely ours, if we beleeve in Chrift, M if it were in our[elves, or M if the law had been fulfilled in our own perfons. Thm _ Chrift u the end of the luw (faith the Apoil:le) for righteoufnefJe to R1m. Io, ~~. every one th.u beluveth. Chrift hath not only determined, and put an end to the ceremonial law, but he is alfo the end of the moral law, he hath perfectly in his own perfon l\csomplifhed the moral law, and that not for himfelfe, but fqr rlghteoufneffe to every one, that truely beleeves in him. AndGodfent huSon- Rom. 8.-4. that the righteoufneffe ofthe law might be fulfilled in us; Thefe ,._ words in m] much trouble interpreters, for thouga we beleeve, yet are we imperfeCtly holy, howthen fhould the law be fulfilled in us? but 'tis anfwered, that the righteoufneffe of the law is fulfilled in us, not by inheflon, or fanet,ification, but by imputati~ on, and application ; (i.) in our nature which Chriil: took upon him; it was in Chrift, and is imputed unto us, and fo the righte, {)ufnefs of the law is fulfilled in us. It is well obferved of Be:z:.a, that the Apofile faith not, th2t the righteoufnefs of the law migh't be fulfilled by m, or of u;, or by any righteoufnefs inherent in our o,wn perfons, but in m becaufe it is to be found in Chrift whofe mcmbel's we are, who rvalkf not after the flefh but after the Spirit. The point ' is fweet, but I cannot fray on it. In reference to what I have fj<>oken of the righteoufneffe ofChriit,habitual and actual, a great contraverli.e is rifen in our dayes; of which in the next SeCtion. Nnn ~ SECT.
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