OfJujlijication ., - fourth to the 11\.omttns) no fewer than elnen··rimes,\<J{!putatum~ lobn 3·7· flitiam. A reputed rigf,ttoufnejfe. The latter, in SaiNt Iolm. ~ b~I; 'l!ed let 110 man d~cei~e you, ~e that dntb rigbte~ufnejJe ~ ;igbteo.us. Ar~hte:uf: nejfe done. W:h1ch IS ~othmgdfe buttour 1un dealmg, uprtgl,t camage 1 /;o. 11ejf con-ver{attOII. , · Of thefe, the latter , ~he PbilofopT,ers themfdves conceived and acknowledged; the other 1s proper to CH R 1 s T 1AN s onely and a}toWther unknowne in Phi/gfoplile. The. one is a quality of th; par. ue. fhe other, anact ~f the Judge~ decl:l!mg or pronouncing righte. ?US; ~heone, ours by '.n~uence; ormfufign : The other, ~y a~compt ox rmputatton. · . · . · That both thefe ehere are, there is no quellion. The quellion is,whC:: ther ofchefe theProphet here principally meaneth, in eh is Name? , · This fhall we bell informe our felves of, .by looking backe to the .Yerfe before : and without fo looking backe, we fhall never doe it tQ purpofe. There the Prophet fetteth one before us, in his royall judiciall pow~ er, in the perfon ofaI(ing, and ofa[\ing fet dowile toexewte judgemmt. and this he telleth us, before he thinke meet to tell us.his Namr. Befor~ ·this l(ing, thus fee downe in his Throne,there to doe judgemenc,che rigb. teoufoe.De that vvlll !land again/1: theLaw, or confcience, Satan, fin, the gates ofhell and the power of darkeneffe ; and fo fland thatwe may be: delivered by it, from death, defpaire, and damnation; and entitled by it to life, falvation and happinelfe eternall; that is, righteoufneffeindecd: that is it, we feekefor,ifwe may finde it. And char is not this latter, but the former ondy; and therefore chat is .the true interpretation of I E· .C••t. Crtflt. Ho \' A jujlitia nofira. · Looke but how Saint .duguj ine and the reil: . · of the Fathers, when they have occafion to mention that place, in Prov,to;s. the Proverbs (Cu~ a(ex juftus federit i11 folio, quis potefi dicerf, Mun. dum en cor meum ?) Looke how they interpret it then, and it will give us light to underlland this name; and we fhall fee, that no name will fctrve then, but this name.. Nor this name neither, but with this inter·. pretation of it, · . And tbat theH o L y GH o s T would have it ever thus underltoocl, ' and us ever to reprefent before our eyes, this l\.ing thus fitting in_ his judgement (eate, when we fpeake of this rigbteoufnejfo, it is ~lame, two wayes. 1. By way of pofition. For the tenor of the Scnpture touching our ;ujlification, tall along runneth in judiciall .cer~es,. to~d. monifh us llill what to fet before us. The ufuall Joymng of JU· Jlice and judgement continually all along fhe Scriptures, fhew, it is a ii r Cor.'f.'f. judiciall juftice we .are to· fee before us. The cermcs of ~ A ludgr, =~~~.3;~i~. a It u the L oRo thatjudgetl> mee. lAPrifon; b I(cpt and (hut upu~du Jltom.s.n Mofes: 3 A'Barre; c We muff all appeare before the barre. 4 AproclamatiOn; • Apo.rl.to d !fl'bo T~>_illlay any thing to the. frifomr.~ cbaru. sAt! ~ccufir; •Theaccufif
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