A child of light walking in darknessA childe of light vvalking in darknesse

Or if the soul desires more distinct and particular satisfaction in point of justification, which consists in the pardon of sins, & acceptation to the favour of God, it being the point which in this state ⟨p. 47⟩of desertion is questioned, and wherein the soul desires satisfaction; That other name of his The Lord our righteousness, Jer. 23. 6. will answer all objections and doubts that our hearts can make, if we had but skill to spell all the letters in it. For if that righteousness of his satisfied God, who in condemning us,¹ is greater then our hearts; then it may satisfy our hearts much more. The righteousness of his life and death, is not only [Greek or Hebrew] an adequate sufficient ransom, 1 Tim. 2. 6. But there is plenteous redemption in it, Psal. 130. Yea to superfluity as the Apostles phrase implies; [Greek or Hebrew] 1 Tim. 1. 14. that is, overfull, more then would serve the turn; and that to pardon his sins, who v. 15. was the chief of sinners. He elsewhere challengeth all the wit and powers of sin and hell and darkness to appear in this dispute, and undertakes to answer them all out of this one position, which he lays as a bottom truth. [Christ hath dyed,] Rom. 8. 34. which is in effect the same with this, The Lord our righteousness: Who therefore (says he) shall condemn? What can be alleged either in the heinousness of sin in the general, or in any of thy sins in particular, unto which an answer may not hence be fetched? from the righteousness of his death and life. Is it that sin is an offence against the great God: Against thee, against thee, &c. as David speaks: and is not this his righteousness, the righteousness of Jehovah, Jehovah our righteousness, who is the mighty God? Is the glory of this great God, and all his excellencies debased by us in sinning▪ and will not the emptying of his glory,