A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

7. Hence if Christ had not come and done this work, it could never have been done, and so we could never have been justified: When we have seen all other persons and things stand by refused, a whole Creation counted but an insignificant Cipher in this respect; there remains now no other but Jesus Christ to do it for us; and on this account he is said to come and die, when we were without strength, Rom. 5. 6. and to be sent forth in due time; and in fullness of the time, Gal. 4.4 when we were just dropping into the pit, ⟨p. 53⟩and the gulf was ready to shut its mouth upon us: when Justice was upon the point of doing execution, and there was none to stay it; yea he is said to come when there was no other Saviour to be found, Isa. 63.15. woe, yea ten thousand woes had fallen upon poor sinners, if the Lord Jesus Christ had not undertaken this work, to obey for our Justification; to become our Righteousness, and stand between us and all our harms, to look Justice it self in the face, and by his perfect Obedience to set us free from that dreadful sentence of Condemnation, which had past upon a world of sinners, and exposed them to suffer for ever the revenges of the Law, and impression of the holy indignation of the great God.

4. In the next place I am to make it evident that this Righteousness of Christ is freely imputed of God. It hath already been made to appear, That there must be a Righteousness presented to Justice for the procuring of our Justification; That this cannot be out own personal; That there is both a complete sufficiency in the Righteousness of Christ for the bringing of this about, and that there was an actual intendment of it to this end: But still, except it had been so, ⟨p. 54⟩