P. 1. No question but Christs Righteousness is perfect, and ours imperfect, and ours is no patch or supplement to Christs: He is not made righteous by our righteousness, but we by his.
2. But that which is perfect in him, is not made perfectly ours; nor formally ours in it self, as distinct from its merited effects. It is not ours as it is Christs. Christ that is our Righteousness, is also made of God to us wisdom and sanctification: And will you say therefore, that we are not to be Wise or Holy, by any Wisdom or Holiness of our own, for fear of adding our patch to Christs?
3. You use to say that Christs Righteousness is ours as Adams sin is ours; and say some, as Adams Righteousness would have been, had he persevered. But 1. Adams Righteousness would have indeed made an Infant initially just by propagation, that is, the innocent Child of an innocent Parent: But as soon as that Infant had the use of Reason and Choice, he must also have a Righteousness of his own, or perish: And this is no patch to Adams righteousness. And indeed in his Infancy he must have a seminal Holiness of his own to justify him, as well as the relation of a Son of Adam.
2. So also, though we are guilty of Adams sin by propagation, yet we have with that guilt, 1. An inherent pravity of our own, 2. And at age our actual sin: And both these are our unrighteousness, as well as Adams sin imputed to us.
Even so Christ the second Adam is a Root of a righteous seed: Our Contract by faith is as to him, what our Natural propagation is as to Adam; that is, the Condition of our Interest in his merits: We have as believers an initial righteousness in our relation to Christ; But we have ⟨p. 241⟩also from him, 1. Inherent habitual righteousness; 2. The actual righteousness of faith, and true obedience and love. And these have their proper use and office, without which we must perish.
4. And I must tell you, that the word Universal is too big to be properly given to any mans justification or righteousness, but Christs: Properly he only is Universally justified or righteous, who hath no unrighteousness at all imputable to him, and is justifiable in all things: But the best believer, 1. Was once a sinner originally, 2. Did oft sin actually, 3. Hath still sin in him, 4. And for some sin may be punished by the Magistrate, 5. And for sin is judged and punished by chastisements and death by God, 6.
P. 1. No question but Christs Righteousness is perfect, and ours imperfect, and ours is no patch or supplement to Christs: He is not made righteous by our righteousness, but we by his.
2. But that which is perfect in him, is not made perfectly ours; nor formally ours in it self, as distinct from its merited effects. It is not ours as it is Christs. Christ that is our Righteousness, is also made of God to us wisdom and sanctification: And will you say therefore, that we are not to be Wise or Holy, by any Wisdom or Holiness of our own, for fear of adding our patch to Christs?
3. You use to say that Christs Righteousness is ours as Adams sin is ours; and say some, as Adams Righteousness would have been, had he persevered. But 1. Adams Righteousness would have indeed made an Infant initially just by propagation, that is, the innocent Child of an innocent Parent: But as soon as that Infant had the use of Reason and Choice, he must also have a Righteousness of his own, or perish: And this is no patch to Adams righteousness. And indeed in his Infancy he must have a seminal Holiness of his own to justifie him, as well as the relation of a Son of Adam.
2. So also, though we are guilty of Adams sin by propagation, yet we have with that guilt, 1. An inherent pravity of our own, 2. And at age our actual sin: And both these are our unrighteousness, as well as Adams sin imputed to us.
Even so Christ the second Adam is a Root of a righteous seed: Our Contract by faith is as to him, what our Natural propagation is as to Adam; that is, the Condition of our Interest in his merits: We have as believers an initial righteousness in our relation to Christ; But we have ⟨p. 241⟩also from him, 1. Inherent habitual righteousness; 2. The actual righteousness of faith, and true obedience and love. And these have their proper use and office, without which we must perish.
4. And I must tell you, that the word Universal is too big to be properly given to any mans justification or righteousness, but Christs: Properly he only is Universally justified or righteous, who hath no unrighteousness at all imputable to him, and is justifyable in all things: But the best believer, 1. Was once a sinner originally, 2. Did oft sin actually, 3. Hath still sin in him, 4. And for some sin may be punished by the Magistrate, 5. And for sin is judged and punished by chastisements and death by God, 6.
