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FAITH. BUILT
ON
KNOWLEDGE.
DIS
C. IX.
justice
acknowledges
the
receipt
in full
:
He
has fulfilled
the
commands
of God's perfect
law,
which
we could
never
fulfil
:
And
he has
borne the curse
which
would
have made
us for
ever
miserable
:
And
all this
not
for
himself,
but
in
our
stead
;
and
that
with this design, that
he
might
redeem
us from the curse
of
the
law,
and
pre
-
.sent us
before
God
in
his own
righteousness, "
that
we
might
receive the
adoption
of
sons,
and be for
ever
accepted
in
the
beloved
;"
Gal.
iii.
13.
and
iv. 5,
Eph.
i.
.6.
Here
is
an
all
-
sufficient
righteousness,
in which
the
severe
eye
of
the
holiness
of God
can
find
no
flaw or
defect,
which
is
the foundation
of
our
hope
;
whereas
our
.righteousnesses
are
mingled
with many defilements.
Here
is
a
righteousness
that
shall
not
be
abolished,
though the heavens
wear
away,
and the
earth
wax
old.
Therefore
the
isles
where sinners
dwell
"
shall
wait
upon
him,
and
on his
arm
shall they
trust
;"
'Is.
li.
5,
6.
It
was
the great
business
of
the Messiah
to
finish
trans-
gression, to make an end
of
sin,
to make reconciliation
for iniquity and
"
bring
in
everlasting righteousness
;"
.Dan.
ix.
24.
And
this
is
of
such
necessity
to
our
salva-
tion, because
of
the
perpetual
frailties
of
our nature,
that
a poor
trembling believer could
not
venture
his soul
safely
into
any
hands
but
where
such
a
glorious
righte-
ousness
was
found
;
and from
this
character our
Saviour
is
pleased
to
take
one
of
his
honourable
titles
:"
Jer.
xxiii,
6.
The Lord
our righteousness. Surely therefore,
saith a humble, convinced and guilty wretch,
in
such a
one
will
I
trust, for
I
have no
merit
in me to
obtain pardon,
I
have
nó
righteousness
of
my own
to
render
me accepted
With
God,
And
I
must
for
ever perish without
it.
"Surely
in the
Lord I
shall
find
righteousness-as
well as
wisdom
and strength
."
Is.
xlv.
24. And to him
I
commit
my
soul.
5.
He
has
great interest
with
God
the
Father,
and
al-
ways prevails
when
he pleads.
"
Father,
I
know
that
thou hearest
me
always;"
John
xi.
42.
..
He
never
prays
in
vain,',
for
he
is
ever worthy
of
the
Father's
ear.
He
appears
in
all the
virtúe
of
his
original sonship,
even
when
he
appears in the
name
of
sinful worms
;
and
when he pleads
their
cause
before
the throne,
he does
it
in all
the power
of
his
meritorious
righteousness,
and
kith
the cries
of
his dying
blood.
We
might
doubt
of