I'm not oblig'd to keep it more, I Yet do and live no more me bind. 4 of Jefus Chrift, even we have believed in Jefus Chrift; that we might be justified by the faith of Chrift, and not by the works of the law: for, by the works of the law thall no flefn be juffified Chap. iii. 11. But that no man is justified by the law in the fight of God, it is evident; for, The juft fhall live by faith. 10 Rom. viii. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Chrift Jefus. Ver. 3. 4. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God d d, fending his own Son, in the likeness of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the fieth; that the righteoufnefs of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the fieth, but after the Spirit. 2 Cor. v. 21. For he hath made him to be fin for us, who knew no fin; that we might be made the righteoutnefs of God in him. Rom. iii. 26. To declare, I fay, at this time, his righteoufnefs; that he might be just, and the juftitier of him which believeth in Jelus. 1 Rom. vi, 14. Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Gal. v. 1,--4. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Chritt hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul fay unto you, that if ye be circumcited, Chrift fhall profit you nothing. For I teftify again to every man that is circumcifed, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whofoever of you are juftified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 2 Rom. vi. 1, 2. What thall we fay then? Shall we continue in fin, that grace may abound? God forbid: How thall we that are dead to fin, live any longer therein? Ver. 15. What then? Shall we fin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid 3 Rom. v. 17, 18, 19. They which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteoufaefs, fhall reign in life by one, Jefus Chrift By the righteouf of one, the free gift came upon all men unto juftification of life.--By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. 4 Rom x. 5.-9. For Mofes defcribeth the righteoufness which is of the law, That the man which doth thofe things, fhail live by them. But the righteoufnefs which is of faith speaketh on this wife, Say not in thine heart, Who fhall afcend into heaven? (that is, to bring Chrift down from above): Or, Who fhail defcend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Chrift again from the dead): But what faith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is the word of faith which we preach, That if thou fhalt confefs with thy mouth the Lord Jefus, and thalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be faved. 5 Rom. ii 31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid : yea, we ellablith the law. 6 Rom. x. 5. See figure 4. 7 John xiv. 19. Because I live, ye fhall live alfo. Chap. xv 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches; he that, abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. Rom. vi. 4. Wherefore my brethren, ye alio are become dead to the law by the body of Chrifl; that ye fhould be married to another, even to him who is railed from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. Ezek. xxxvį, 27. Though works of rightecufnefs I flore, 1 And I will put my Spit within you, and caufe you to walk in my ftatutes; and ye fhall keep my judgments, and do them. 1 Phil. i. 11. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jefus Chrift unto the glory and praise of God. 2 Phil. iii. 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteoufnefs, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Chrift, the righteounels which is of God by faith. Ifaiah Ixiv. 6. All our righteousness are as filthy rags. Rom. iv. 6. Even as David alfo defcribed the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteoufnefs without works. 3 Rom. iii. 20,-22. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no fleth be juftified in his fight for by the law is the knowledge of fin. But now the righteoutnefs of God without the law is manifefted, being witnessed by the Jaw and the prophets; even the righteoufnefs of God which is by faith of Jefus Chrift unto all, and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference. 4 Prov. viii. 34. Bleffed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, wailing at the poits of my doors. 5 Ifaiah lvii. 12. I will declare thy righteoufaefs, and thy works, for they shall not profit thee. Luke xvii. 10. When ye fhall have done all those things which are commanded you, fay, We are unprofitable fervants: we have done that which was our duty to do. 6 Pfalm xvi. 2. O my foul, thou haft faid unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee Ezek. xxxvi. 32. Not for your fakes do I this, faith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be afhamed and confounded for your own ways, O houfe of Ifrael. 7 Rom. v. 18, 19. By the righteoufnefs of one, the free gift came upon all men unto juftification of life.-By the obedience of one, fhall many be made righteous. Ifaiah xlv. 24, 25. Surely, thall one fay, In the Lord have I righteournefs and ftrength: even to him thall men come, and all that are incenfed against him fhall be afhamed. In the Lord thall all the feed of Ifrael be juftified, and shall glory. 8 Rom. iii. 9, 10. What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wife: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin; as it is written, There is none righteous, no not one. Verse 19. Now we know, that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law that every mouth may be ftopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 91 Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us,-righteoufnef. Ifaiah xlv. 24. See figure 7. Jer. xxiii. 6. In his days Judah fhall be faced, and Ifrael fhall dwell fafely and this is his name whereby he thall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. o Ifaiah xlil. 21. The Lord is well pleafed for his righteousness' fake: He Though freeft mercy I implore, I SECT. VII. The Mystery of GOD the Juftifier, Rom. iii. 26. justified both in his justifying and condemning; or, Soul-juftification and Self-condemnation. MY Jefus needs not fave 5, yet muft; 6 He paid the double debt, well known will magnify the law, and make it honourable. Matth. iii. 15. Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteoufnels. Verie 17. And lo, a voice from heaven, faying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleated. 11 Ifaiah lv. 1. Ho, every one that thirftech, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Rev. xxii. 17. Wholoever will, let him take the water of Life freely. 1 Plalm li. 1. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness; according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my tranfgreffions. ↑ Rom. iii. 24,—.6. Being jullified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jefus Chritt: whom God hata fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteoufnefs for the remiffion of fins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I fay, at this time his righteoufhefs: that he might be juft, and the juilifier of him which believeth in Jelus. 1 John i. 9. If we confels our fins, he is faithful, and just to forgive us our fins, and to cleante us from all unrighteoufnels, 3 Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7. And the Lord paffed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord,-that will by no means clear the guilty. 4 Rom. iv. 5. To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that juflifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteouthefs. 5 Rom. ix. 5. Chrift is over all, God blefied for ever. 6 John x. 16. And other theep I have, which are not of this fold: them alfo I must bring, and they fhall hear my voice; and there thall be one fold, and one thepherd. Verie 18. No man taketh it (viz. my life) from me; but 1 lay it down of myfelt: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. Luke ii. 49. And jefus faid unto them (viz. Joseph and his mother,) How is it that ye fought me! wift ye not that I must be about my Father's butinets ? 7 Jer. xiv. 8. O the hope of Irael, the Saviour thereof in time of trouble, &c. Chap. xvii. 17. Be not a terior unto me; thou art my hope in the day of evil. 1 Tim. i. 1. Paul an apofile of Jelus Chritt, by the commandment of God our Saviour, and our Lord Jefus Chritt, which is our hope. 8 John xvii. 6. I have manifeited thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me. 2 Tim. 1. 12. 1 know whom I have believed; and I am pertuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him againit that day. 9 Iaiah liii. 4,-6. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our forrows; yet we did efterm him fricken, fmitten of God, and afflicted. But he Hence, though I ne'er, had more or less As hell can never yield fo much; 5 was wounded for our tranfgreffions, he was bruifed for our iniquities; the chaftisement of our peace was upon him, and with his ftripes we are healed. All we like theep have gone aítray: we have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Verfe 8. For the tranf greffion of my people was he fricken. Heb. vii. 22. By fo much was Jefus made a furety of a better teftament. 1 Rom. iii. 9, 10, 19. See figure 8. p. 185. 2 Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the tranfgreffion, and to make an end of fins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlafting righteoufhefs, &c. Zech. xiii. 7. Awake, O fword, againt my Shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, faith the Lord of holts: fmite the Shepherd, and the sheep fhall be fcattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. 3 Rom. v. 8, 11. But God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet finners, Chrift died for us. Much more then, being now juftified by his blood, we fhall be faved from wrath through him. For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more being reconciled, we fhall be faved by his life. And not only fo, but we allo joy in God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, by whom we have now received the atonement. Heb. ix. 14. How much more fhall the blood of Chrift, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without fpot to God, purge your confcience from dead works to ferve the living God? 4 Heb. x. 5, 6. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he faith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldit not, but a body halt thou prepared me: in burntofferings and facrifices for fin thou haft had no pleafure. Verfe 14. By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are fanctified. Verfe 29. Of how manch forer punithment, fuppofe ye, fhall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was fant fied, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of race? 5 Rom. v. 11. See figure 3. Eph. v. 2. Chrift hath given himself for us, an offering and a facrifice to God for a fweet (melling favour. 1 Pet. i. 18, 19. Forafmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as filver and gold, from your vain converfation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Chrift, as of a Lamb without blemish and without fpot. Gal. iii. 13. Chrift hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us. 6 1Pet. iii. 18. Chrift hath once fuffered for fins, the juft for the unjust, (that he might bring us to God,) being put to death in the fleth, but quickened by the Spirit. Rom. iii. 26. To declare, I fay, at this time his righteoufnefs that he might be juft, and the juftifier of him which believeth in Jefus. 1 John ii. 2. And he is the propitiation for our fins and not for ours only, Here ev'ry divine property He to the law, though Lord of it, but alfo for the fins of the whole world. Chap. iv. 10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and fent his Son to be the propitiation for our fins. 1 Rom. iii. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteoufnefs for the remiffion of fins that are paft, through the forbearance of God. Pfalm lxxxv. 10. Mercy and truth are met together: righteoufnefs and peace have kiffed each other. 2 Cor. v. 18, 19. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jefus Christ, and hath given to us the miniitty of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Chrift reconciling the world unto himfelf, not imputing their trefpaffes unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Verse 21. For he hath made him to be fin for us, who knew no fin; that we might be made the righteoufnefs of God in him. Luke ii. 14. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will towards men. 2 Ifaiah xliv. 23. Sing, O heavens; for the Lord hath done it : fhout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into finging, ye mountains, O foreft, and every tree therein; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himfelf in Ifrael. Eph. i. 6. To the praife of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved. Verle 12. That we should be to the praife of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 3 Pfalm cxix. 122. Be furety to thy fervant for good: let not the proud opprefs me. Heb. vii. 22. By fo much was Jefus made a furety of a better teitament. 4 1 Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us,-righteoufnefs. Chap. xv. 55,57. O death, where is thy fting? O grave, where is thy victory? The fting of death is fin; and the ftrength of fin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. 5 Zech. xiii. 7. See figure 2. p. 187. Rom. ix. 5. Chrift is over all, God bleffed for ever. Phil. ii. 6,-8. Chritt Jefus being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a fervant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fathion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the crofs. 6 lbid. Gal. iv 4, 5. But when the fulness of the time was come, God fent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of fons. |