An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Mr Broughton reads, And how can man be just before the Omnipotent? and so the sense runs more clear,¹ taking the first particle for a pure copulative, whereas we read it as a discretive, but how shall man be just before God? Namely, in your sense; as if he had said, you discourse of justice under such a notion as renders it impossible for any man to be just before God; in one sense a man may be righteous before God, but in yours no man can. Would you not have a man know himself to be just, unless he know himself to be without sin? If you take just, to be the same as without in-dwelling sin, then it is impossible for any man to appear just before ⟨p. 148⟩God: but man may be just and righteous before God, though he have sin dwelling in him, and that's my notion of justice in this dispute.

Mr Broughton reads, And how can man be just before the Omnipotent? and so the sense runs more clear,¹ taking the first particle for a pure copulative, whereas we read it as a discretive, but how shall man be just before God? Namely, in your sense; as if he had said, you discourse of justice under such a notion as renders it impossible for any man to be just before God; in one sense a man may be righteous before God, but in yours no man can. Would you not have a man know himself to be just, unlesse he know himself to be without sinne? If you take just, to be the same as without in-dwelling sinne, then it is impossible for any man to appear just before ⟨p. 148⟩God: but man may be just and righteous before God, though he have sinne dwelling in him, and that's my notion of justice in this dispute.

1. 1Illud cum Deo vel ante Deuma erit aliquid sorense & judicial.Illud cum Deo vel ante Deuma erit aliquid sorense & judiciale.