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Gospel remission, or, A treatise showing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin…Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin…
Gospel remission, or, A treatise showing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptoms of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.]Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptomes of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.]
London: printed for Dor. Newman, 1668
Gospel Remission. › Chapter 3 › Part 5: Of the fifth Mystery, This Righteousness is in another.
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Of the fifth Mystery, This Righteousness is in another.
5. This Righteousness is in another, and it is a higher righteousness than ever that of Adam's was in Innocency; this is a great mystery, that a soul should stand righteous before the Lord, and yet in the righteousness of another, not of his own, Phil. 3.8, 9, 10. St. Paul counted his own righteousness as dung that he might be found in him, that is in Christ, Not having my own Righteousness which is of the Law, but that which is through ⟨p. 15⟩the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God that comes in by faith; and so Rom. 5. latter end, Christ is said to be our righteousness, ver. 19. As by the disobedience of one many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one many shall be made righteous; 'tis a righteousness transferred upon us beyond our own: Mark, in forgiveness, as our sins comes to be transferred and put upon Christ, so the righteousness of Christ is transferred upon a justified soul, and that soul comes to be righteous before God; surely then, blessed is that man that comes to have the shining garments of Christs righteousness upon him: Ahasuerus could not think of a better way than this to honour Mordecai more, than to clothe him with the Kings Royal Raiment, and proclaim before him, This shall be done to the man whom the King delights to honour; surely that man or woman is honoured indeed, that God shall clothe with the shining Robes of the Righteousness of his own Son; thou that wast clothed with the filthy rags of thy own sin and wickedness, and hadst no other garments to stand in, in the presence of God; now he puts on thee the Righteousness of his own Son, and so thy iniquity comes to be covered: Oh that is a glorious Garment! all the Garments in the world bedest with Diamonds are but filthy Garments in comparison of the Garments of Christs Righteousness, that is put upon a man when his sins are forgiven.