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2. The subject matter about which this incogitancy is declared or expressed: Which is a sure and evident conclusion that followed from the death of the Godly, viz. That the Righteous is taken from the evil to come. Which conclusion, ⟨p. 147⟩being of it self a full proposition, and also here insinuated as a matter worthy of deep meditation, may be the subject of our present discourse. In which Conclusion observe,

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. 7.20. There is not a Just Man upon Earth, that doth good, and sinneth not, Pro. 20.9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean? Hence that, Prov. 24.16. A Just Man falleth seven times: But in an Evangelical, in which Men are said to be Righteous, partly by the imputation of Christ's Righteousness. Hence that 2 Cor. 5 ult. He was […] 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 imperfection, 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, 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,