An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…

The Righteousness of God,¹ is the Righteousness of Christ: And this is called the Righteousness of God, because he accepts it, and imputes it to us: And a Righteousness through the Faith of Christ, because Faith receives it: The Righteousness of God is not Faith it self, but a righteousness through the faith of Christ, Phil. 3.9. Faith, I confess, is sometimes put for the Gospel; but the question is not what it is in other places, but what in those which speak of the Righteousness of God: Mark that place, Rom. 1.17. therein, that is, in the Gospel, is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith. Here Faith is not put for the Gospel; for then the Righteousness of God should be revealed from Gospel to Gospel: Nay, here we have the Gospel, the Righteousness of God and Faith, all set down as distinct things: And in other Scriptures, we have the Grace of Faith mentioned with the Righteousness of God, because Faith receives that Righteousness: The Moral Law of Moses required not only ⟨p. 329⟩external conformity; but internal Sanctity, and that in all perfection; the Apostle in the fourth Chapter to the Romans, excludes not only external observations; but the works of converted Abraham from justification; Faith is accounted for Righteousness, not properly absolutely in it self, but relatively with respect to its object Jesus Christ, as I have before proved.

The Righteousness of God,¹ is the Righteousness of Christ: And this is called the Righteousness of God, because he accepts it, and imputes it to us: And a Righteousness through the Faith of Christ, because Faith receives it: The Righteousness of God is not Faith it self, but a righteousness through the faith of Christ, Phil. 3.9. Faith, I confess, is sometimes put for the Gospel; but the question is not what it is in other places, but what in those which speak of the Righteousness of God: Mark that place,