A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam…

Moreover, by Christ's coming to keep the Law in our Nature, God hath magnified the Law, ¹and made it honourable; and hereby we do not make void the Law through Faith, but establish the Law, in that the Son of God, in Man's Nature, yielded perfect Obedience thereto, and died for our breach of it, whose Obedience is ours by imputation to our Justification at his Bar.

1. 1Rom. 3.31.

Pray observe that through Faith we attain a perfect Righteousness, i. e. are interested in the most complete Obedience of Christ to the Moral Law; but now if Christ only satisfied for our breach of the Law by his Death, and his perfect active Obedience has no hand in, or is not the material Cause of our Justification before God, how do we by believing in him establish the Law?

Pray observe that through Faith we attain a perfect Righteousness, i. e. are interested in the most compleat Obedience of Christ to the Moral Law; but now if Christ only satisfied for our breach of the Law by his Death, and his perfect active Obedience has no hand in, or is not the material Cause of our Justification before God, how do we by believing in him establish the Law?

I say the Righteousness of the Law (which is so called) which the Apostle decries as unable to justify us, is a resting in or trusting to our imperfect Conformity to it, or to any other Law tho never so sincerely performed; for this sort of Righteousness is always opposed to the Righteousness of Faith or of Grace,¹