Defcriytion of CkriJh riihteoufnefe. 24j and thy Law {hall have nothing to complaine of for it (hall have full fatisfae }ion upon this, God the Father and the Son did as it were agree in that way of the fecond Covenant, that we call the Covenant of grace,and the Father makes his Son to be the head of this Covenant, to take mans nature upon him as apublick perfon, reprefenting all fuch as. the Father gives to him ; for he will not that all individually shall come to be fa- ved, but thole that the Father gave to him, he fhould repre- fent to him, and they should have the Gofpel in time preached to them; And this righteoufnefs ihould be made known by the Golpel, and by the Spirit of God they ( hould come to be convinced of this righteouineíie, and by faith this should be made over to them, that the furferings and obedience of Jefus Chri(I which he tenders up to God the Father,thould be mode over unto beleevers, and they by faith able to lay hold upon this righteoufnefs, and to tender it likewife to God the Father for fatsfaction, this is the righreoufnefs of Jesus Chri{I. Thus do poor wretched fanners come to be made righteous in Chri(f, their fins are transferred upon Chrift,and Chrifts righteoufnefs transferred upon them, according to that Scripture 2 Cor: 5. ult. He that new no fin was made fin for us, that w: might be made the right eoufueffe of God in him This is a moil glorious righteoulnefre as we shall fpeake to by and by Now thole that {hallbe inlightened by the holy Ghoft to fee into the re- allity, the certainty, the beauty, the neceffity, the glory of this righteoufneife ; And upon that their hearts hhall be fett with hungering and thir{ling after the affitrance of their part in ir, . after the glorious effe&s that (hall come from it, hleifed are -thoe foules, for they shall be filled with this righteoufnefs ; when they shall come to have all the good that is robe had by this . righteoufnefs, their foules (hall fay that they have enough, well though they have. not yet the full comfort, and the full a{furanc_, or the glorious fruit of this riehteoufnef e, yet they are in a blelfed condition even now while they are hungering and rhirfling after this righteoufnefs , This is the' fecond .In- terpretation of this Text, which indeed, though the o her hash, ä meaning which concernes the glory of God much, yet till; I i 2 muck
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