Secondly, I say Christ is a second Adam, and a public person, and became ours, we then being in his loins, so the righteousness of Christ is made ours, we being borne in Christ by faith, and found in him: he being our head, we have a spiritual life descending upon us; he being our husband, all his goods are ours also. This point is the soul of the Church, and the golden key which opens heaven for us: if we join any other thing to it, it opens hell to us, as God will reveal at that great day. Its true the Papists do acknowledge now that their good works are not of themselves, but from God: but thus did the Pharisee, he thanked God that he was not as other men, nor as the Publican; but the poor Publican disclaiming all such goodness, went away justified rather than the other: let it be ⟨p. 111⟩our wisdom therefore to rely only on Christ, whose obedience and righteousness is so all-sufficient, as nothing may be added thereto, and say with the Apostle, not I, but the grace of God in me.
Secondly, I say Christ is a second Adam, and a publick person, and became ours, wee then being in his loynes, so the righteousnesse of Christ is made ours, wee being borne in Christ by faith, and found in him: hee being our head, we have a spirituall life descending upon us; he being our husband, all his goods are ours also. This point is the soule of the Church, and the golden key which opens heaven for us: if we joyne any other thing to it, it opens hell to us, as God will reveale at that great day. Its true the Papists doe acknowledge now that their good workes are not of themselves, but from God: but thus did the Pharisee, he thanked God that he was not as other men, nor as the Publican; but the poore Publican disclaiming all such goodnesse, went away justified rather than the other: let it bee ⟨p. 111⟩our wisedome therefore to relye onely on Christ, whose obedience and righteousnesse is so all-sufficient, as nothing may bee added thereto, and say with the Apostle, not I, but the grace of God in me.
