Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…

That there may be no contention about words, you must take my phrase of [Legal and Evangelical Righteousness] in the sense before explained, viz. as they take their name from that Covenant which is their rule, and I know not how any righteousness should be called [Legal or Evangelical in a sense more strict and proper, nor whence the denomination can be better taken then from the formal reason of the thing: Yet I know that the observance of the Law of Ceremonies, and the seeking of life by the works of the Law, are both commonly called Legal Righteousness, but in a very improper sense in a comparison of this. I know also that Christs Legal Righteousness, imputed to us is commonly called [Evangelical Righteousness,] but that is from a more alien extrinsical respect; to wit, because the Gospel declareth and offereth this Righteousness, and because it is a way to Justification, which only the Gospel revealeth. ⟨p. 72⟩I do not quarrel with any of these forms of speech, only explain my own, which I knew not how to express more properly, that I be not mis-understood. The Righteousness of the new Covenant then being, the performance of its conditions, and its conditions being our obeying the Gospel or believing, it must needs be plain, That on no other terms do we partake of the Legal Righteousness of Christ. To affirm therefore that our Evangelical or new Covenant-Righteousness is in Christ and not in our selves, or performed by Christ and not by our selves, is such a monstrous piece of Antinomian doctrine, that no man who knows the nature and difference of the Covenant can possibly entertain, and which every Christian should abhor as unsufferable.

That there may be no contention about words, you must take my phrase of [Legall and Evangelicall Righteousness] in the sence before explained, viz. as they take their name from that Covenant which is their rule, and I know not how any righteousness should be called [Legall or Evangelicall in a sence more strict and proper, nor whence the denomination can be better taken then from the formall reason of the thing: Yet I know that the observance of the Law of Ceremonies, and the seeking of life by the works of the Law, are both commonly called Legall Righteousness, but in a very improper sence in a comparison of this. I know also that Christs Legall Righteousness, imputed to us is commonly called [Evangelicall Righteousness,] but that is from a more aliene extrinsecall respect; to wit, because the Gospel declareth and offereth this Righteousness, and because it is a way to Justification, which only the Gospel revealeth.