Teflimonief out of the Evangelifls, &c. 43 g righteoufnefs. it is by his Righteoufnefs, by his only, that we are ju{lified in the fight of God, and do glory. This is the fubftance of what, in this cafe, we plead for ; and thus it is delivered in the Scripture, in a way bringing more Light and Spiritual Senfe into the Minds of Believers, than thole Phi - lofophical expreffions, and di(lin Lions, which vaunt them - felves with a pretence of propriety, and accuracy. CHAP. XVII. Te.ftimonies out of the EvangelifLc, confidered. T He R.eafons why the Dofcrine of Juftification, by the Imputation of the Righteoufnef of Chrifí, is more fully and clearly delivered in the following Writings of the New Teflament, than it is in thofe of the Evangelifis who wrote the Hiftory of the Life and Death of Chrift, have been be- fore declared. But yet in them allo it is fufficiently attefted, as unto the fiate of the Church before the Death and RefurreEli- on of Chrift, which is reprefented in them. Some few of the many Teflimonies which may be pleaded out of their Wri- tings unto that purpofe, t (hall confider. z. The principal defign of our Blefl'ed saviours Sermon, elpecially that part of it which is Recorded Matth.5. is to declare the true nature of Righteoufnef before God. The Scribes and Pharilees, from a Bondage unto whole Doarines he defigned to vindicate the Confciences of thole that heard him, placed all our Righteoufnefs before God in the Works of the Law, or Mens own obedience thereunto. This they taught the Peop'e, and hereon they juflifed themfelves , as
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