444 The nature of Jufli fi`cation, as declared had evidently evinced thereby, Chap. 3. ver. 19, 23. Here- on an inquiry doth arife, how any of them come to be jujli- fled before God. And whereas Juftification is a fentence up- on the confideration of a Righteoufnefs , his grand inquiry is what that Righteoufnefs is, on the confederation whereof a Man may be fo juftified. And concerning this, he affirms expretly that it is not the Righteoufnef of the Law, nor of the Works of it ; whereby what he doth intend, bath been in part before declared, and will be further manifefted in the proofs of our difcourfe. Wherefore in general he declares, that the Righteoufnefs whereby we are juftified, is the Righ- teoufnef of God, in oppofition unto any Righteoufnefs of our own, chap. r. 17. Chap. 3. 21, 22. And he defcribes this Righteoufnefs of God by three properties, (t.) That it is x,e1s v6 , without the Law, ¡Ter. 21. feparated in all its con- cerns from the Law; not attainable by ir, nor any works of it; which they have no influence into. It is neither our obedience unto the Law, nor attainable thereby. Nor can . any exprefíìon more feparate and exclude theWorks of O- bedience unto the Law, from any concernment in it, then this dot h : Wherefore, what ever is, or can be performed by our felves in obedience unto the Law, is rejected from any intereft in this Righteoufnefs of God, or the procure- ment of it to be made ours. (2.) That yet it is witnefjed unto by the Law. Ver. 2 I. The Law and the Prophets. The Apoftle by this diftinction of the Books of the Old Tel-lament, into the Law and the Prophets, manifefts that by the Law he underftands the Books of Mofes ; and in them, Tefiintony is given unto this Righteoufnefs of God, four wa3 s. (r.) By a declaration of the caufes of the neceflity of it unto our Jttiftification. This is done in the account given of our 4poi1afie from God, of the lots if his Image, and the [tate of fn that mined thereon, For hereby an end was put unto all
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