A55299:176
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ, and our union and communion with him by Edward Polhill ..., Esquire.
London: printed for Ben. Foster, 1675
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.
But it is necessary in respect of the state and condition of justified persons, 1for they are accepted and received into friendship with an holy God; therefore they must cleanse and purify themselves: what need of this? when they are clothed with the Robes of Christs Righteousness, which is the only foundation of our Communion with God. And pag. 267. They fulfil the Righteousness of the Law, not by doing any thing themselves, but by having all done for them, by having this perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to them. And pag. 423. The Doctor places Christs righteousness in the room of ours, to be not only ⟨p. 152⟩the foundation, but condition of the Covenant; And then makes it an expression of our chaste affections to Christ, quite to thrust out our own righteousness, and to allow it no place in our Religion: And pag. 427. The foundation of their love to Christ, Is a fond imagination that he will save them by his righteousness without any righteousness of their own.
But it is necessary in respect of the state and condition of justified persons, 1for they are accepted and received into friendship with an holy God; therefore they must cleanse and purify themselves: what need of this? when they are cloathed with the Robes of Christs Righteousness, which is the only foundation of our Commuuion with God. And pag. 267. They fulfill the Righteousness of the Law, not by doing any thing themselves, but by having all done for them, by having this perfect righteousness of Christ imputed to them. And pag. 423. The Doctor places Christs righteousness in the room of ours, to be not only ⟨p. 152⟩the foundation, but condition of the Covenant; And then makes it an expression of our chast affections to Christ, quite to thrust out our own righteousness, and to allow it no place in our Religion: And pag. 427. The foundation of their love to Christ, Is a fond imagination that he will save them by his righteousness without any righteousness of their own.
- 1Mr. Sherlock.