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

A second thing that makes awakened sinners fear, that there is an impossibility of their salvation, is an apprehension that it is contrary to the Justice o• God: and not reconcilable with the sentence, of the Law: God stands bound in faithfulness, to see the Law made good: and they are to seek about the consistency of the Law and Gospel: the clearing up of which difficulty, I shall refer unto the next chapter: at present it may suffice: to say that God in his Word declares it to be consistent with his Justice, Rom. 3.26. that he may be just, and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus: it is a great help unto conscience to see how the Justice of God, and Righteousness of the Law is preserved in the Justification of sinners: but where the manner of it is not well understood, conscience has matter of satisfaction, in that God testifies, that it is so:

The second thing to be premised is, What we are to understand by the Righteousness of Christ, and that which is intended hereby, is the whole course o• ⟨p. 19⟩the Obedience and Sufferings of Jesus Christ: by the Righteousness of Christ we are to understand that which he performed as a surety: his mediatorly Righteousness: this Righteousness is spoken of, John 16.10. Of Righteousness, because I go to my Father, Rom. 5.18. by the Righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all, to the justification of life, Dan. 4 24. to bring i• everlasting Righteousness: upon this account it is, that he is said to be made for Righteousness to us, 1 Cor. 1.30. to be the Lord our Righteousness, Jer. 23.65. this is sometimes called the Righteousness of God,