1. The subject, the Righteous, or the Just man: Which is not to be understood in a Legal sense, for one that is in all parts complete, answering the Moral Law in every point, for so the assertion were of no comfort at all, since among Adam's Progeny descending from him by natural Generation, there is no such, Eccl. 7. […] There is not a Just Man upon Earth, that doth […] and sinneth not, Pro. 20. 9. Who can say, […] made my heart clean? Hence that, Prov. […] A Just Man falleth seven times: But […] Evangelical, in which Men are said to […] teous, partly by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness. Hence that 2 Cor. 5. ult. He was made Sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God through him. Partly by the sanctification of the Spirit, by which Believers are renewed in the Image of God, and endowed with the principles of Holiness and Righteousness, and do serve God, though with much of imperfecti••, yet in sincerity of heart: These are the righteous men of whom this is asserted.
1. The subject, the Righteous, or the Just man: Which is not to be understood in a Legal sense, for one that is in all parts compleat, answerin• the Moral Law in every point, for so the assertion were of no comfort at all, since among Adam's Progeny descending from him by natural Generation, there is no such, Eccl. 7. 〈…〉 There is not a Just Man upon Earth, that doth 〈…〉 and sinneth not, Pro. 20. 9. Who can say, 〈…〉 made my heart clean? Hence that, Prov. 〈…〉 A Just Man falleth seven times: But 〈…〉 Evangelical, in which Men are said to 〈…〉 teous, partly by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness. Hence that 2 Cor. 5. ult. He was made Sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God through him. Partly by the sanctificaion of the Spirit, by which Believers are renewed in the Image of God, and indowed with the principles of Holiness and Righteousness, and do serve God, though with much of imperfecti••, yet in sincerity of heart: These are the ••ghteous men of whom this is asserted.
