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The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /
The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 / by John Howe ...The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 / by John Howe ...
printed by Sarah Griffin for Samuel Thomson, 1668
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The rule of this Righteousness therefore being evidently the Law of Faith, the Gospel-revelation, wherein it is preceptive of duty▪ This Righteousness can be understood to be nothing but the impress of the Gospel upon a mans heart and life. A conformity in Spirit and Practice to the revelation of the Will of God in Jesus Christ, a collection of graces exerting themselves in suitable actions and deportments towards God and man. Christ formed in the soul, or put on; the new creature in its being and operations, the truth learned as it is in Jesus, to the putting off the old man and the putting on the new.
The rule of this Righteousness therefore being evidently the Law of Faith, the Gospel-revelation, wherein it is preceptive of duty▪ This Righteousness can be understood to be nothing but the impresse of the Gospel upon a mans heart and life. A conformity in Spirit and Practice to the revelation of the Will of God in Jesus Christ, a collection of graces exerting themselves in suitable actions and deportments towards God and man. Christ formed in the soul, or put on; the new creature in its being and operations, the truth learned as it is in Jesus, to the putting off the old man and the putting on the new.
More distinctly, we may yet see wherein it lies, upon a premised view of some few things necessary to be foreknown in order thereunto. As
More distinctly, we may yet see wherein it lyes, upon a premised view of some few things necessary to be foreknown in order thereunto. As
That this righteousness is a renewing righteousness, or the righteousness of one formerly a sinner, a lapsed perishing wretch, who is by it, restored into such a state towards God, as he was in before that lapse (in respect of certain great essentials, though as yet his state be not so perfectly good while he is in his tendency and motion; And shall, by certain additionals, be unspeakably better, when he hath attained the end and rest he is tending to.)