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…

By this you have eternal righteousness,§5 that never can be lost; if the Lord should make thee as perfectly righteous as once Adam was, or Angels in heaven are, and put on thy royal apparel again, thou wast in danger of losing this, and of being stripped naked again; but now the Lord hath put your righteousness into a safer hand which never shall be lost, Heb. 9.12. Dan. 9.24.

By this you have eternall righteousnesse,§5 that never can be lost; if the Lord should make thee as perfectly righteous as once Adam was, or Angells in heaven are, and put on thy royall apparell againe, thou wast in danger of losing this, and of being stript naked againe; but now the Lord hath put your righteousnesse into a safer hand which never shall be lost, Heb. 9.12. Dan. 9.24.

By this you please God, and are more §6amiable before him, then if you had it in your self; do not say this is a poor righteousness, ⟨p. 268⟩which is thus out of my self in another; why do you think righteousness in your self would be best? is it not because hereby you think you shall please God? Suppose thou hadst it, yet thy righteousness should be at the best but mans righteousness, but this is called the righteousness of God, which cannot but be more pleasing to him, then that in thy self, 2 Cor. 5.20