The truly blessed man

2. When the Guilt is taken off. A person that hath been Guilty▪ may become legally righteous by having his Guilt removed according to the tenor of the Law, and that is when the Law hath received full satisfaction on his account; when the penalty denounced is satisfied, the obligation […] punishment ceaseth, for the end of the Law […] thereby attained. So that if there be a way foun• for a Sinner to be discharged of his Guilt, with the fulfilling of the Law on his account, he may so be declared a righteous person after he hath been Guilty; and this is the glorious privilege discovered in the Gospel, Rom. 4.5.

2. When the Guilt is taken off. A person that hath been Guilty▪ may become legally righteous by having his Guilt removed according to the tenour of the Law, and that is when the Law hath received full satisfaction on his account; when the penalty denounced is satisfied, the obligation 〈…〉 punishment ceaseth, for the end of the Law 〈…〉 thereby attained. So that if there be a way foun• for a Sinner to be discharged of his Guilt, with the fulfilling of the Law on his account, he may so be declared a righteous person after he hath been Guilty; and this is the glorious priviledge discovered in the Gospel, Rom. 4.5.

3. It is certain that Christ was personally perfectly righteous every way. We are not looking upon his Righteousness considered as God, but as he was in our nature, and therein subject to the law, Gal. 4.4. Which law was the Rule of mans Righteousness, to which Christ, as man, was to yield conformity and he did so: Now there were two respects in which he was subject to the Law; why he was so, will be presently considered.