to make us rig~te'ouJnVffe{ a11d"tha:t n't>t an_y ~char but,the ~bteoujnejfe:of\ Goo: the Wit ofma,nrcan·de"V.IIe tl!11> mOJ;e. A:nd ;tU to t~Js tnd : 'J:hat ·.,, we might fee, there belongeth a fp~ciall Bcee t~ this.f'.(<tme; that tHere -is more ·t~an ordina~y comfo;fti Lin·it; that. therefore \vee 'fhould ·~elt careful! to honour Himwith it, and fo call Hi111 by it;' h; Ho v A sur <J\ight~oufnefj(~ - -- · -. . \ ··- . ' , ' 7,' · ' ~ t~i. "f• ~ 'l"t '' 1 ._. ~ 'uJ:r: ~ , . ;, , : u· ·· --:v/·; · There· is no Chrifl:ian trtdrt that will deny this Nanrer!but will eaU 2 CHR 1 s -r _by it, and,fay ofhitri; chat He is IeTJolJJa_ Iuflittu !WftJra, wichoun T?c s,,;fod( taking a fyllableor hmerfrom it. But, it i,s not the fyllab~es~ but the Jerfo thts Name, that makechcbe Narm:. And thefenfe is it,\Ye are to lool<:e unto· that we keepe iterttire in fmfl, .as welhs;in found', if \ive meane:ulrpreferve this Name of Iufl,itia noftra 'full and ' whole unto Hiin. And as 'this is .true; fo is it true likewife; :chat even among Chriflians, all take it not iii:one fenfe: but fome, of a greater latitude than other. There are that tak~ it in chat fenfe which the Prophet Bfay hath fee downe'i i1l I E· H·6v A ECay 45; 24~ justitia mea, that all our riglJteoufnefJe i5 in Him; and .we to be-founq in Him, not having our owne righteoufnejfe, but being made the 'nij,hte2 Cor.s:ult: oufneffe of Goo in Him. 'fhere are fome other, chat th0bgh i)1 ori~ - .- part of our righteoufnejfe they cake it in that.[enfe; yet in ·:moth~r par~, they fhrinke it up, and in that, make it but a propofition caufaU, an~ the interpretation thereof to be, A I E H o v A juftitia m..eiu WhicH is true too 1 whether we refpeCl: Him, as theCa'!fe exemplary;or paturhe·: (For w~are tG be made conformable to tlJe Image of ·C H R. 1 sT.) 2 Or wbe- l{d g ., ther wee refpeCl: Him, as the Caufe efficient : For;;ofall His righteous m. •• g• .workes, t~e Pr_W'het truly protelleth, D_omine, tmi1Jerfa opera. noftr~ .Tu E.fap6. 12! operatus es tnnobts: and the Apollle when he had fa1d Ego,correCl:eth linn. 1 Cor. 15-1o, felfe prefently and faith, 'J:Il..on ego (edgrdtia 'Dei mecum, Not I;but t/;e'grace . · . of Go D. This meaning then is true and .good: but not full enougb. Rom. 3· u ·l For either it caketh the name in funder; and givetth Hun not all, bmc .a Rom-4-1_, . part ofit againe :or elfe, it maketh twofenfes,which may not be allow~ ed in one Name. ' ,; ·1 . For the more plaine conceiving of which point, we are to be put in x RighieauJ– minde, That the true riglJteoufnejfe (as faith Saint rpa"l) is not ofmans ;:!: 4 ccaun– device, but hath I :lis 'llJitneffe from tlJe Larv and Prophets ; which he ther<;_ 2 RightcDII_F proc.eedeth to £he~, out ofthe exa~ple; firfl: o~ Abraham, and after of ~~.~;~i;. 'Da'l!ld; ln the Scnpture then, there 1s a doul:J!e ng!Jteou(nejfe fee downe, · both in the old and in the newTellament; In the Old; and in the very firll place, that righteoufneffe is named in · the Bible: AbralJam belee-ved and it 'll>as accounted unto him for rigl•teou[nejfe. Gen.xs:zf, · A righteoufnejfe accounted. Andagaine (in the very next line) it is mentio- · ned, .Abrabam 'llJill teacb his boufe to doe riglJteoujilejfe- A }'igliteouji1eJfe done. ln the New lik~wife. The former. in one Chapter (even the - -- -- - ----- Ggggg2 -- fotlrt~ ' '
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