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

It must be understood by viewing it in its Rule, in conformity whereto it stands; which must needs be some Law of God. There hath been a twofold Law given by God to mankind, as the measure of a universal Righteousness, the one made for innocent, the other for lapsed man, which are distinguished by the Apostle under the names of the Law of works, ¹and the Law of faith. It can never be possible, that any of the Apostate Sons of Adam, should be denominated Righteous by the former of these Laws, the Righteousness thereof consisting in a perfect and sinless obedience.

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The latter therefore is the only measure and rule of this Righteousness, viz. The Law of Faith; or that part of the Gospel-revelation which contains and discovers our duty, what we are to be and do in order to our Blessedness; being, as to the matter of it, the whole Moral Law, before appertaining to the Covenant of Works; attempered to the state of fallen sinners, by evangelical mitigations and indulgency by the super-added precepts of repentance and faith in a Mediator, with all the other duty respecting the Mediator, as such: and clothed with a new form as it is now taken into the constitution of the Covenant of grace▪

The latter therefore is the onely measure and rule of this Righteousness, viz. The Law of Faith; or that part of the Gospel-revelation which contains and discovers our duty, what we are to be and do in order to our Blessedness; being, as to the matter of it, the whole Moral Law, before appertaining to the Covenant of Works; attempered to the state of faln sinners, by evangelical mitigations and indulgency by the super-added precepts of repentance and faith in a Mediator, with all the other duty respecting the Mediator, as such: and cloathed with a new form as it is now taken into the constitution of the Covenant of grace