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If this be not the Righteousness, whereby a poor Sinner is justified, (sc. the Righteousness of the Law fulfilled by a ⟨p. 148⟩Mediator on behalf of Gods Elect) I would gladly enquire What is become of the [Do this] in that first Covenant? Is it indeed abolished? Then hath Christ destroyed the Law: destroyed it I say, not fulfilled it, at least in one great and main design of it.

If this be not the Righteousness, whereby a poor Sinner is justified, (sc. the Righteousness of the Law fulfilled by a ⟨p. 148⟩Mediatour on behalf of Gods Elect) I would gladly enquire What is become of the [Do this] in that first Covenant? Is it indeed abolished? Then hath Christ destroyed the Law: destroyed it I say, not fulfill'd it, at least in one great and main design of it.

Secondly; If so; I would fain be satisfied, what succeeds in the room of the Fac hoc, to supply the office of a justifying Righteousness? what can?

First; Not, surely, Inherent Righteousness, that being quidimperfectum, and an imperfect Cause can never produce a perfect Effect; which some observing, have had no other [Greek or Hebrew] left them, ¹but, in down right language, to affirm Habitual Righteousness to be perfect; whom we shall leave to the confutation of fire in the last day.