The blessedness of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /The blessednesse of the righteous discoursed from Psal. 17, 15 /

The natural necessity of what hath been here infe•'d, hath been argued already from the consideration of the nature of this blessedness. The legal necessity of it, arising from the Divine will, and Law, is that I mainly intend at present. By such a necessity also, they are excluded: who by Gods rule (according to which the supreme judgment must be managed) ⟨p. 212⟩shall be found unrighteous. Those that come not up to the terms of the Gospel Covenant; never accepted the offers, nor submitted to the commands of it. And that hence consequently are unrelated to Christ, and ununited to him; no way capable of advantage by his most perfect and all-sufficient righteousness, that alone fully answers all the ex•ctions, and demands of the Covenant of Works: and so, who are at last found unrighteous by the Old Law, and the New; the Law both of the Creator, and Redeemer too.

The natural necessity of what hath been here infe•'d, hath been argued already from the consideration of the nature of this blessedness. The legal necessity of it, arising from the Divine will, and Law, is that I mainly intend at present. By such a necessity also, they are excluded: who by Gods rule (according to which the supreme judgment must be managed) ⟨p. 212⟩shall be found unrighteous. Those that come not up to the tearms of the Gospel Covenant; never accepted the offers, nor submitted to the commands of it. And that hence consequently are unrelated to Christ, and ununited to him; no way capable of advantage by his most perfect and all-sufficient righteousness, that alone fully answers all the ex•ctions, and demands of the Covenant of Works: and so, who are at last found unrighteous by the Old Law, and the New; the Law both of the Creatour, and Redeemer too.

There is the same necessity these should be excluded, as that God should be just and true. The word is gone forth of his mouth in righteousness and cannot return. He did not dlly with sinners, when he settled those constitutions, whence this necessity results. He is not a man, that he should lye, nor the Son of mn, that he should repent. An Heathen understood so much of the nature of God.