in the Eelles of S. Paul, &c. 445 all poffibility and hope of acceptance with God, by our own Perfonal Righteoufnefs. By the entrance of fin, our own Righteoufnefs went out of the World ; fo that there mull be another Righteoufnefs prepared and approved of God, and called The Righteoufnefs of God, in oppofition unto our own, or all Relation of Love and Favor between God and Man, mull ceafe forever. (2.) In the way of recovery from this (tate, generally declared in the firfb Promife of the Bleffed Seed, by whom this Righteoufnefs of God was to be wrought and introdu- ced ; for he alone was to make an end of fin, and to bring in Everlalfing Righteoufnefs, =:Pn5v Ply Dan. 9. 24. That Righteoufnefs of God, that fhould be the means of the Ju- (tification of the Church in all ages, and under all difpenfa- tions. (3.) By flopping up the way unto any other Righteouf- nefs through the Threatnings of the .Law , and that Curfe which every tranfgreffion of it, was attended withal. Here- by it was plainly and fully declared, that there muff be fuck a Righteoufnefs provided for our Juftification before Men, as would anfwer and remove that curie. (ç.) In the Prefiguration and Reprefentation of that only way and means, whereby this Righteoufnefs of God was to be wrought. This it did in all its Sacrifices, efpecially in the great Anniverfary sacrifice on the Day of Expiation, wherein all the fins of the Church, were laid on the Head of the Sacrifice, and fo carried away. (3.) He defcribes it by the only way of our participation of it, the only means on our part of the communication of it unto us. And this is by Faith alone. The Righteoufnefs of God which is by the Faith of chrill efua, unto all, and upon all them that believe g for there is no difrence. Ver.22. Faith in Chrift Jefus is fo the only way and means, whereby this Righteoufnefs of God comes upon ua, or is communicated unto us, that it is fo unto alá
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