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Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses
Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses. / By Mr. Thomas Boston, late Minister of the Gospel at Etterick.
United States : s.n. Printed for the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. 1787
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2dly, The believer is accepted as righteous in God's sight, 2 Cor. v 21. For he is found in Christ, not having his own righteousness, but that which is through the saith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith, Phil iii. 9. He could never be accepted of God, as •igh•eou•, upon the account of his own righteousness: because, at best it is but imperfect; and all righteousness, properly so called, which will abide a trial before the throne of God, is perfect. The very name of it implies perfection: for unless a work be perfectly conform to the law it • not right, but wrong: and so cannot make a man righteous before God, whose judgment is •••ding to truth. Yet if justice demand a righteousness of one that is in Christ, upon which he may be accounted righteous before the Lord: Surely shall such an one say, In the LORD have I righteousness, Isa. xiv 24. The law is fulfilled▪ its commands are obeyed, its sanction is satisfied. The believer's Cautioner has paid the debt. It was exacted, and he answered for it.
2dly, The believer is accept•d as righteous in God's sight, 2 Cor. v 21. For he is found in Christ, not having his own righteousness, but that which is through the saith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith, Phil iii. 9. He could never be accepted of God, as •igh•eou•, upon the account of his own righteousness: because, at best it is but imperfect; and all righteousness, properly so called, which will abide a trial before the throne of God, is perfect. The very name of it implies perfection: for unless a work be perfectly conform to the law it • not right, but wrong: and so cannot make a man righteous before God, whose judgment is •••ding to truth. Yet if justice demand a righteousness of one that is in Christ, upon which he may be accounted righteous before the Lord: Surely shall such an one say, In the LORD have I righteousness, Isa. xiv 24. The law is fulfilled its commands are obeyed, its sanction is satisfied. The believer's Cautioner has paid the debt. It was exacted, and he answered for it.