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

Among Moralists,¹ such a comprehensive Notion of righteousness as is inclusive of all other virtues is not unknown. But in Scripture, it is, its much more ordinary acceptation. To give instances, were to suppose too much ignorance in the Reader, and to enumerate the passages in which this term is taken in that extensive sense, were too great an unnecessary burden to the writer. It were indeed to transcribe a great part of the Bible. How familiar is the opposition of righteous and wicked, and righteous and sinner in sacred Language! And how fully coextent righteousness is in the Scripture Notion of it to the whole Law of God, that one passage sufficiently discovers, Where 'tis said of Zechariah and Elizabeth that they were both righteous before God,² walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Among Moralists,¹ such a comprehensive Notion of righteousness as is inclusive of all other vertues is not unknown. But in Scripture, it is, its much more ordinary acceptation. To give instances, were to suppose too much ignorance in the Reader, and to enumerate the passages in which this term is taken in that extensive sense, were too great an unnecessary burden to the writer. It were indeed to transcribe a great part of the Bible. How familiar is the opposition of righteous and wicked, and righteous and sinner in sacred Language! And how fully coextent righteousness is in the Scripture Notion of it to the whole Law of God, that one passage sufficiently discovers, Where 'tis said of Zacharias and Elizabeth that they were both righteous before God,² walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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