The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

How can the Righteousness of Christ make God love one? I have no righteousness of my own to draw the heart of God to me, and I don't see how the righteousness of Christ can procure the love of God for me.

Answer, 1. The use of the righteousness of Christ is to answer the demands of the Law for you: the Law laid an objection in the way of your salvation, which must be removed before you could be saved: the Law would not admit of your salvation, without a complete righteousness: and the righteousness of Christ does remove this objection: this is as much as the Law does demand as the condition of life; the righteousness of Christ makes you an heir of blessedness according to the law: this removes the guilt of sin, this supplies your want of worthiness: so that hereby fair way is made for your salvation without any injustice, Rom. 3.26. there needs nothing more to make your salvation free from any legal exceptions. ⟨p. 303⟩2. There is no need that the righteousness of Christ should procure the love of God for you: men are troubling of themselves in vain, when they are seeking a cause of Gods love out of himself: Gods love is the first cause of mans salvation, and has no dependence upon any thing: it is impossible that any thing out of God should move God to love you, and there is sufficiency of grace in God to love you, tho' there be no external cause to move him: God loves men freely, Hos. 14.4. he can have mercy upon you because he will, the love that God has to the angels of heaven is not built upon their righteousness, but is the foundation of their righteousness, because they were elect angels, therefore they continued holy angels; and the love of God to Abraham and all his Saints does not depend upon their righteousness nor upon the Righteousness of Christ; indeed the love of God was the reason why Christ was sent to work out righteousness for us, Joh. 4.10. he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.