A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the…

This is the Foundation of the Gospel [Greek or Hebrew] or Perfection; and it was procured for us, by the Lord Christ Offering up himself in Sacrifice as our great High Priest. For we have Redemption through his Blood, even the Forgiveness of Sins, Ephes. 1. 7. God having set him forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood to declare his Righteousness for the forgiveness of sins. And this he is in Opposition unto whatever the Law could effect, taking away that Condemnation which issued from a Conjunction of Sin and the Law. For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the Flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful Flesh, and for sin, Condemned sin in the Flesh, that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, Rom. 8. 3, 4. The end of the Law in the first place, was to be a means and Instrument of Righteousness unto those to whom it was given. But after the entrance of sin it became weak and utterly insufficient unto any such purpose; for by the deeds of the Law can no Flesh be Justified. Wherefore Christ is become the end of the Law for Righteousness, to every one that Believeth, Rom. 10. 4. And by whomsoever this is denied, namely, that Christ is our Righteousness, which he cannot ⟨p. 160⟩be but by the Imputation of his Righteousness unto us, they do virtually overthrow the very Foundation of that state of Perfection which God had designed to bring his Church unto. This the Levitical Priesthood could not effect, for the Reason given in the words following; For under it the People received the Law. It could do no more but what the Law could do; but that could not make us Righteous, because it was weak through the Flesh. And by the deeds of the Law no Man can be Justified.

This is the Foundation of the Gospel 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or Perfection; and it was procured for us, by the Lord Christ Offering up himself in Sacrifice as our great High Priest. For we have Redemption through his Blood, even the Forgiveness of Sins, Ephes. 1. 7. God having set him forth to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood to declare his Righteousness for the forgiveness of sins. And this he is in Opposition unto whatever the Law could effect, taking away that Condemnation which issued from a Conjunction of Sin and the Law. For what the Law could not do in that it was weak through the Flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful Flesh, and for sin, Condemned sin in the Flesh, that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us,