The PrieIlhoodofChrifl. .-------.-----.- v co denominate a mana righteous man. Fira, there muff beextant a righteoufilefe which is apt andable to ixflifie. Secondly, there mull be a right andpropriety toit,wher- by it commeth to paffe that it doth atioally juflifie. We muff then fira inquire what the righteoufneffe is where- by a man may be jutlified. Bighteoufnefe confifteth in a relationof ratio:odeand conformitie. Godmade maxup- , right, but they have fought out many inventions, and turned into many crooked divertidesof their owne, ec.. clef.7. 29. Dent. 32.5. A wicked man loveth crooked ways, to wander up and downe in his owne courfe,fer. 3 1.22.Hof.4. i6. whereas a righteousman lovethfirait mom, Heb.1 2.13. Pfal.5 .8. bccaufe righteoufneffe con- fifieth in rectitude : and this prefuppofeth Come Ride, unto which this conformitiemull referre. The primitive andoriginall prototype, or Ruleofholineffe,is the righ- teoufneffeof God himfelfe, fo faire-forth as his Image is communicable to the creature, or at leafl fo farre forth as it was at the fira implanted inman : Beyeeper feel, as yourfather which is in heaven isperfet I, Matth. 5.48. It is not meantof his infinite perfe6lion, (for it was the fin of Adam toaime at being as God, inabfoluteneffe and independent excellencie) but of that perfe6honof his, which is in the Wotd, fet forth unto usfor an Image and patterne whereunto to conforme our felves. Therefore the fecondary rode of righteoufneffe, or rather the fame rule untous revealed, is the Lawof god written in his Word, in thewhich Gods holineffe, -fo farre as it is our example, exhibiteth it felfe to the foule, as the Sun doth communicate its light thorow the beame which con- veyes it. Now in the Law there arc two things; one principall,Obeelieace ; the other fecondary,Maledielien, upon fuppofition of difobedience : Carted if every one that continneth not in all things which are written is the booke of the Law to doe them, Gal.3.10. So then, upon fuppofition ofthe finnedman, two thingsare required F f 4 unto 441 VERSE 4.
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