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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 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▪
This Rule, though it be in the whole of it capable of coming under one common Notion, as being the standing obliging Law of Christs mediatory Kingdom, yet according to the different matter of it, its obligations and annexed sanctions are different.
As to its matter; it must be understood to require