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

There are two or three Conclusions which properly arise from the Doctrine;

1. We may hence […] main different between the first and second Covenant; or the Covenant of works and the Covenant of Grace. The difference between these two doth […] lye in that the One hath a Righteousness according to which it proceeds, and by which it tries the Children of men, and that the other hath none at all; it is highly derogatory to the Glory of God for any to think that he who was exactly just in the dispensation of the old Covenant between him and man, hath left off to be just, and laid […] his holiness and righteousness, that he might so make way to be gracious in the dispens• tion of the second: no; its Gods glory […] he can be both just, and yet justify a sinner that he can give to him, and accept for him. Righteousness, according to which he himself may righteously proceed to acquit him. But here therefore properly lies the difference between these two, viz. that the one look at a personal, whereas the other hath respect to a Relative Righteousness: there is […] great, and in some •ense a greater Righteousness in the new Covenant than there was in the old; for this looks at the Righteousness of man, but that hath fixed upon the Righteousness of God, Text. That confined the man within himself, and bid him to look for ⟨p. 109⟩it at home, whereas this sends him abroad to •nquire for the matter and ground of his justification. And this consideration may •each us, that all such as hope to be justified, and would not finally miss of their expectation, must go out of themselves for it: This then is essential to justifying Faith, that it carries us ••uite out of our selves to Jesus Christ for […].

1. We may hence 〈…〉 main different between the first and second Covenant; or the Covenant of works and the Covenant of Grace. The difference between these two doth lye in that the One hath a Righteousness according to which it proceeds, and by which it tries the Children of men, and that the other hath none at all; it is highly derogatory to the Glory of God for any to think that he who was exactly just in the dispensition of the old Covenant between him and man, hath left off to be just, and laid his holiness and righteousness, that he might so make way to be gracious in the dispens tion of the second: no; its Gods glory he can be both just, and yet justifie a sinner that he can give to him, and accept for him. Righteousness, according to which he himself may righteously proceed to acquit him. But here therefore properly lies the difference between these two, viz. that the one look at a personal, whereas the other hath respect to a Relative Righteousness: there is great, and in some ense a greater Righteousness in the new Covenant than there was in the old; for this looks at the Righteousness of man, but that hath fixed upon the Righteousness of God, Text. That confined the man within himself, and bid him to look for