The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

1. This is the righteousness by which a sinner ⟨p. 265⟩is righteous, the Law shows you how a man may be righteous, but there is not the least tittle of the Law, which shows you how a sinner may become righteous, this never could have entered into the thoughts of Angels how this could be; it is cross to sense and reason, for a man accursed and sinful in himself, to be at that very time blessed and righteous in another; to say, Lord depart from me for I am a sinful man, Luke 5.8. is the voice of natural conscience awakened, not only concerning God out of Christ, but even when God appears in Christ as he did then to Peter; but that the Lord should become our righteousness, when we think no sinners like our selves: no cases, no afflictions, no desertions like ours, who can believe this? yet thus it is; the very scope of the fourth Chapter to the Romans, is not to show how a just man may be made righteous,¹ but how a sinner may; our own duties, works, and reformation, may make us at the best but less sinful, but this righteousness makes a sinner sinless.

1. This is the righteousnes by which a sinner ⟨p. 265⟩is righteous, the Law shewes you how a man may be righteous, but there is not the least tittle of the Law, which shewes you how a sinner may become righteous, this never could have entered into the thoughts of Angells how this could be; it is crosse to sense and reason, for a man accursed and sinfull in himselfe, to be at that very time blessed and righteous in another; to say, Lord depart from me for I am a sinfull man, Luke 5.8. is the voyce of naturall conscience awakened, not only concerning God out of Christ, but even when God appeares in Christ as he did then to Peter; but that the Lord should become our righteousnesse, when we think no sinners like our selves: no cases, no afflictions, no desertions like ours, who can beleeve this? yet thus it is; the very scope of the fourth Chapter to the Romans, is not to shew how a just man may be made righteous,