Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

by the acts of his life before his death meritoriously, and by the acts of his life after his death (as by his resurrection, ascension, session, and intercession) effectually. Christ is made unto us of God (saith the Apostle) both redemption and righteousness: redemption to deliver us from sin;¹ and righteousness to bring in everlasting righteousness. 4. They except, that if we are justified by Christ his fulfilling the Law, then we are justified by a legal righteousness, but we are not justified by a legal righteousness, but by such a righteousness as without the Law is revealed in the Gospel. Answ. The same righteousness by which we are justified, is both legal and evangelical in divers respects; legal in respect of Christ, who being made under the Law, that he might redeem us who were under the Law, perfectly fulfilled the Law for us; and evangelical in respect of us unto whom his fulfilling of the Law is imputed. And herein stands both the agreement and difference betwixt the Law and the Gospel; the agreement, in that both require the perfect fulfilling of the Law unto justification; the difference, in that the Law requireth perfect obedience to be performed in our own persons; but the Gospel accepts of perfect obedience performed by Christ our surety, and imputed to us; and so it is all one as if it had been performed in our own persons.

by the acts of his life before his death meritoriously, and by the acts of his life after his death (as by his resurrection, ascension, session, and intercession) effectually. Christ is made unto us of God (saith the Apostle) both redemption and righteousness: redemption to deliver us from sin;¹ and righteousness to bring in everlasting righteousness. 4. They except, that if we are justified by Christ his fulfilling the Law, then we are justified by a legal righteousness, but we are not justified by a legal righteousness, but by such a righteousness as without the Law is revealed in the Gospel. Answ. The same righteousness by which we are justified, is both legal and evangelical in divers respects; legal in respect of Christ, who being made under the Law, that he might redeem us who were under the Law, perfectly fulfilled the Law for us; and evangelical in respect of us unto whom his fulfilling of the Law is imputed. And herein stands both the agreement and difference betwixt the Law and the Gospel; the agreement, in that both require the perfect fulfilling of the Law unto justification; the difference, in that the Law requireth perfect obedience to be performed in our own persons; but the Gospel accepts of perfect obedience perfomed by Christ our surety, and imputed to us; and so it is all one as if it had been performed in our own persons.