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

What it Imports, How it Qualifies.

First, What it imports. I take Righteousness here to be opposed to Wickedness in the foregoing verse, (as was intimated before) and so understand it in an equal Latitude: not of particular, but of universal righteousness: That is, not that particular virtue, which inclines men to give every one their right (unless in that every one, you would include also the blessed God himself, the Sovereign common Lord of all) but an universal rectitude of heart and life, comprehending not only equity towards men, but piety towards God also. A conformity ⟨p. 16⟩to the Law in general, in its utmost extent, adequately opposite to sin, ¹(which is indeed of larger extent than wickedness; and in what different respects righteousness is commensurate to the one and the other, we shall see by and by) as that is, generally, said to be [Greek or Hebrew], a Transgression of the Law.²

First, What it imports. I take Righteousness here to be opposed to Wickedness in the foregoing verse, (as was intimated before) and so understand it in an equal Latitude: not of particular, but of universal righteousness: That is, not that particular vertue, which inclines men to give every one their right (unless in that every one, you would include also the blessed God himself, the Sovereign common Lord of all) but an universal rectitude of heart and life, comprehending not only equity towards men, but piety towards God also. A conformity ⟨p. 16⟩to the Law in general, in its utmost extent, adequately opposite to sin, ¹(which is indeed of larger extent than wickedness; and in what different respects righteousness is commensurate to the one and the other, we shall see by and by) as that is, generally, said to be , a Transgression of the Law.