A55299:358
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.
Hence Christ is [Greek or Hebrew],1 the end of the Law, the perfection and accomplishment of it, for Righteousness to them that believe, Rom. 10.4. That is, the Gospel of Christ requires that Righteousness of us, which the Law did only typify and represent, that holiness and purity of mind; which is the perfection of all legal Righteousness: For that Christ should be the end of the Law, by imputation of his Righteousness to us, hath no foundation in the Text. The Apostle explains what he means by this in the following verses, where he gives us a description of the righteousness of the Law, and the righteousness of Faith: The righteousness of the Law is an external conformity, to the letter of the Law; the man that doth them shall live in them; that is, shall enjoy all the Temporal Blessings of Canaan, which were promised to the observance of the Law: But the Righteousness of Faith, is a firm and steadfast belief of the Divine Authority of Christ, ⟨p. 385⟩that he is the Lord, and more particularly a belief of his Resurrection from the dead, as the last and great confirmation which God gave to the divinity of Christ's Person and Doctrine: This is that Faith that overcometh the world, and purifies the heart, and transforms us into the likeness of God; which is the perfection of all the ritual righteousness of the Law. Upon this account Christ is said to be made to us Righteousness, 1 Cor. 1.20. He of God is made to us Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption: He is our Wisdom, as he is our great Prophet who instructs us in true Wisdom; our Righteousness, as we are justified by Faith in him, by a sincere belief of his Gospel, which is the only Righteousness acceptable to God; our Sanctification, because the law of the spirit of life in him makes us free from the law of sin and death; our Redemption, as by these means he bath delivered us from the bondage of the Jewish Law, from the idolatrous Customs of the Heathens, and the tyranny of wicked Spirits, and the wrath of God, which is the merit of sin.
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