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

1. All the acts of Evangelical Obedience, as they come from us, […] are done by us, all parts of our Righteousness; and therefore for that reason they are wholly excluded from having any influence into our Justification, as hath been already proved in the foregoing discourse: and there is this one reason which carries enough in it to stop the mouth of all cavillings against it, viz. That which doth it self stand in need of a pardon, before it can find ⟨p. 103⟩acceptance with an holy God, cannot any way help to justify us; but such are all our acts of Obedience: there is indeed an Evangelical Righteousness in them, they are done in sincerity, and they Flow from a principle of Sanctification, and have a conformity, though imperfect to the Law of God, but yet they cannot justify, because they have their spots, deficiency, short coming, and thereupon they need the Righteousness of another for their Justification: we are called Priests to God, in respect of our new Obedience, but we must remember that there was a Law requiring that the Priests right ear, right thumb and right toe must be touched with the blood of the Sacrifice, intimating that all we do in our service to God stands in need of the imputation of Christs merit, or else it is of no worth: yea and we find that the High Priest, who was principally a Type of Christ, was to bear the iniquity of the holy things of the children of Israel, and to make expiation for them, telling us that Christ makes it one part of his work to appease his Fathers displeasure, and give ground for the acceptance of all we do in integrity, through his own merits.

1. All the acts of Evangelical Obedience, as they come from us, 〈…〉 are done by us, all parts of our Righteousness; and therefore for that reason they are wholly excluded from having any influence into our Justification, as hath been already proved in the foregoing discourse: and there is this one reason which carries enough in it to stop the mouth of all cavillings against it, viz. That which doth it self stand in need of a pardon, before it can find ⟨p. 103⟩acceptance with an holy God, cannot any way help to justifie us; but such are all our acts of Obedience: there is indeed an Evangelical Righteousness in them, they are done in sincerity, and they Flow from a principle of Sanctification, and have a conformity, though imperfect to the Law of God, but yet they cannot justifie, because they have their spots, deficiency, short coming, and thereupon they need the Righteousness of another for their Justification: we are called Priests to God, in respect of our new Obedience, but we must remember that there was a Law requiring that the Priests right ear, right thumb and right toe must be touched with the blood of the Sacrifice, intimating that all we do in our service to God stands in need of the imputation of Christs merit, or else it is of no worth: yea and we find that the High Priest, who was principally a Type of Christ, was to bear the iniquity of the holy things of the children of Israel, and to make expiation for them, telling us that Christ makes it one part of his work to appease his Fathers displeasure, and give ground for the acceptance of all we do in integrity, through his own merits.