VERSE 4. TheTriOhoodofChrift. ....0=11.Mlaa........e.,10/IIIlip SI1110MII unto lullification, the expiation offin, by fuffcting the curfc,and the fulfillingofrighteoulneffe de novo ,againe Man created might have beene juiiified by obedience onely,but man lapfcd cannot otherwife appcarc righte- ous in Gods fight, but by a double obedience, the one pan;ve, for the fatisfailionof his vindicative juflice, as wee are his prifoners ; the other aRive, in proportion to his remunerative juflice, as we are his creatures. But betides this that there mull be a rghteoufneffe extant,there is required in the perfon to be juflified or denominated thereby a propriety thereunto, that it may be His righteoufneffe ler. 3 . t 6. Now there may be a two-fold proprietie to righteoufneffe, according to a two-foldmanner of unitie. (Vnitas enim pranantir eft fundamentumproprietatis ad officsomprailitum ) there is aperfond/ and individual' unity, whereby a man is onus in fe, one in and by himfelfe, and fo bath pro- prietie to a dutie performed, becaufe it is performed in his owne perfon, and by h it-datealone. Secondly, there is a commonunity, whereby aman is tents cum alto, one with another, or wherebymanyarc ;mum inaliquopri- mp, one in and with fomc other thing which is the foun- taine and original] ofthem all. And this is the ground ofRightentipefe imputed; for in the Law a man is jufli- fied by performing 'mire obedience in hisowne perfon, for the Law requireth righteoufneffe to be performed by a createdand implanted firength, and dothnot put, fuppofe, or indulge anycommon principle thereof out of a mans felfe s Therefore legal! righteoufneffe is mofi properly called Our ow righteoufneffe, and is fet in op- position to the righteoufneffeof God, or that which is bygrace imputed, R0141.10.3.14143.8,9. Wee fee then that in this matter of imputation eitherof finne or tigh- teoufneffe, for the cheering of God from any injuflice or partiality inhis proceedings, there mull ever bee force unity,or other betweene the parties,he whofe fa61 is im- puted,
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