A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

(1) Wherein it consists, viz. In God's righteousness and salvation toward them. By God's righteousness here, is meant his faithfulness in fulfilling his covenant promises to his church, or his faithfulness towards his church and people in bestowing the benefits, of the covenant of grace upon them; which benefits though they are bestowed of free and sovereign grace, as being altogether undeserved; yet as God has been pleased, by the promises of the covenant of grace, to bind himself to bestow them, so they […] bestowed in the exercise of God's righteousness or justice. Therefore the apostle says, Heb. vi.10. God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love. And so, 1. John i.9. If […] confess our sins, he is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all our unrighteousness. So the word righteousness is very often used in scripture for God's covenant-faithfulness so it is used in Nehem. ix.8. Thou hast performed thy words, for thou art righteous. So we are often to understand righteousness and covenant-mercy for the same thing; as Psal. xxiv.5. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Psal. xxxvi.10 Continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. And Psal. li.14. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. Dan. ix.16. O Lord, according to thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away.— And so in innumerable other places.

(1) Wherein it consists, viz. In God's righteousness and salvation toward them. By God's righteousness here, is meant his faithfulness in fulfilling his covenant promises to his church, or his faithfulness towards his church and people in bestowing the benefits, of the covenant of grace upon them; which benefits though they are bestowed of free and sovereign grace, as being altogether undeserved; yet as God has been pleased, by the promises of the covenant of grace, to bind himself to bestow them, so they bestowed in the exercise of God's righteousness or justice. Therefore the apostle says,