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

1. The use of the righteousness of Christ is to answer the demands of the Law for you: the Law laid an objection in the way of your salvation, which must be removed before you could be saved: the Law would not admit of your salvation, without a complete righteousness: and the righteousness of Christ does remove this objection: this is as much as the Law does demand as the condition of life; the righteousness of Christ makes you an heir of blessedness according to the law: this removes the guilt of sin, this supplies your want of worthiness▪ so that hereby […] way is made for your salvation without any injustice, Rom. 3.26. there needs nothing more to make your salvation free from any legal exceptions.

1. The use of the righteousness of Christ is to answer the demands of the Law for you: the Law laid an objection in the way of your salvation, which must be removed before you could be saved: the Law would not admit of your salvation, without a compl•at righteousness: and the righteousness of Christ does remove this objection: this is as much as the Law does demand as the condition of life; the righteousness of Christ makes you an heir of blessedness according to the law: this removes the guilt of sin, this supplies your want of worthiness▪ so that hereb• 〈…〉 way is made for your salvation without any injustice, Rom. 3.26. there needs nothing more to make your salvation free from any legal exceptions.

2. There is no need that the righteousness of Christ should procure the love of God for you: men are troubling of themselves in vain, when they are seeking a cause of Gods love out of himself: Gods love is the first cause of mans salvation, and has no dependence upon any thing: it is impossible that any thing out of God should move God to love you, and there is sufficiency of grace in God to love you, tho' there be no external cause to moe him: God loves men freely,