4.9 6 The nature of yufiification, as declared requires, which is all and only that:Righteoufnefs which God requires of us, the accomplifhment of this end of the Law, the yews fought after by their own perfonal perform- ance of the Works and Duties of it. Bu` hereby in the ut- molt of their endeavors they could never fulfil this Righte- oufnefs, nor attain this end of the Law, which yet if Men do not, they mull perith for ever. Wherefore the Apoftle declares, That all this is done an- other way ; that the Itzghteoufnefc of'the Law is fulfilled, and its end, as unto a Righteoufnefs befi =e God, attained, and that is in and b3° Chrift. For w'rlar the Law required , that he accomplifhrd which is accounted unto every one that believes. Herein the Apofile iffueth the Whole difquifition about 'a Righteoufnefs wherewith we may be juftified before God, and in particular, how fatis faf1ion is given unto the demands of the Law. That which we could not do, that which the Law could not cif-ea in us, in that it was weak through the flefh, that-which we could not attain by the Works and Duties of it, that Chrift hath done for us, and fo is the end of the Law fir Righteoufnefs unto every one that be- lieveth. The Law demandeth a Righteoufnefs of us; the accotn- plifhment of this Righteoufnefs is the end which it aims at, and which is neceflary unto our Juftification before God. This is norto be attained by any works of our own, by any Righteoufnefs of our own. But the Lord Chrift is this for us, and unto us ; which, how he is or can be but by the Im- putation of his Obedience and Righteoufnefs in the accom- plifhment of the Law, I cannot underftand ; I am fure the Apoftle doth not declare. The way whereby we attain unto this End of the Law, which we cannot do by ourutmolt endeavors to eitablith our own Righteoufnefs, is by Faith alone, for Chrift is the end
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