righteous, Godtetifjingof hie gifts. r Pet.;.t 2 For the eyes of the Lordare over the righteous. I John 3.7. He that doth righteoufaefi to righteous, evenas he is righteous; Ifa. 3.1o. Say to the righteous it.Jhall be well with him. P(al. i.5,6. Mit.5.6, 20. An enemy to the faith, it called an enemy ofrighteoufnefs. A&s 13.10. 2. Pet. 2.2 I. I John z,29. and 3. io. Gen. 15.6. An] he believed in the Lord, andhe counted it to him for righte- oolnefi. Pfal. 106.3 I. Rom:4 3,5. H4 faith is counted for righteaufnefi. ver.9. Faithwu reckoned to Abrahamfor righ-. te mfoeff. ver.2z, z4. Therefore it Wat imputed to him for righ- teoufnefs. Now it Was- not written for hisMe alone that it . w.0 imputed to hint, but for us: alfä to whom itfallbs imputed, if We believe on him that railed up yefus our Lordfrom the dead. So Jam.2.23. Gä1.3.6. Ifanyfay that by [ Faith l in all there; Texts is meant Chriflf righteoufneTs, and not Faith, I will be- l=ive themwhen' take Scripture tobe intelligible only by them, and that God did not write it to have it underftood. But that 'Faith is imputed oraccounted tous for Righteoufnefs in a fenfe meerly fubordinate to Chrifts righteoufnefs by which we . are juaified, I e.alily grant. As to Satisfa7ion and (Merit we have no righteoufnefs but Chriffs, but a Covenant and Law we are fill under, and not redeemed to be lawicfs : and this. Covenant is ordained as the wayof making over Chrift and his meritorious righteoufnefs , and life to us : and therefore. they being given or made over on Covenant- terms, there is a. perfonal performance of the conditions neceffary : and _fo> that perfonal performance is all the righteoufnefs inherent or proprieaEtionis, that God regpireth of us now, whereasby the. firft Covenant perfet Obediencewas required as neceffary to life. So that in point of meer perfonal performance our own; Faith is accepted, and imputed or accounted to us for Righte- oufnefs, that is, God Will require no moreas'necef ry to Jufli- =- cation at our oWn hands, but that we believe in the righteoufnefs of another, and accept a Redeemer ( though once he required' more : )' But as to the fatisfying of the Jaftice of the offended, Majefty, and the meriting of life with pardon , &c. So the Righteoufnefs ofChriti is our only Righteoufnefs. But nothing, at .Scriptute is more plain then that Faith it feif is faid to be ac- cowed
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