and*imputed of God, but as being only of value in the judgment of God to juſtifie, becauſe performed by him, who is not only Man, bur God, As 20. 28. and Rom. 3. 21, 24, 25+ and 10. 3. Not that it (2n be meant of the eſſential righteouſneſs of God, for the righteouſe by the faith of Chriſt, Rom. 3. 22. or that which conſtitutes them righteous in God's tight, upon their receiving of Chriſt and being implanted into him, was that obedience which he yield?d unto God tor them voluntarily doing and ſuffering his will, Fon 15, 13, Rom. 5. 6, 7, 8. Phil. 2. $. 1 1im. 6. 13. Heb. 9. 14. For this obedience in their ſtead being fully performed by him who had the divine and human ?-atifre, . conjoined in himielf was of inf- nite value, ſo that his mediator :1ghteouſneſs being ſome way imputed to thoſe who are iound in him, they are found righteous before God in his juft judg.:ent, as living Members of Chriſt, to whom they are united by the Spirit and Faith, Foh 6. 55. and I5. 4. Eph. 5. 30, 22. Col. 1.27. This myſtical head and body making but one Chriſt, and thereupon his righteouſneſs is reputed theirs (and thereby they are ſet right with God) in ſuch a mea- ſure as is meet for it to b2 communicated from Head to Members, who partake of the thing imputed, the righteouſneſs which ſatis fied the Law, and therefore moſt proper to juſtifie againk it, and anſwer the demands of it. And in that it is ſaid to be th? righteouſneſs of God by faith, we contider faith as the means where- by we come to be interefſed in it. Faith it felf is not. the righte- ouſneſs which is «pop, not 77 the believer, Rom. 3. 22. entring, n- to judgment with God ; but the righteouſnel(s which belicyers find in.-Chrift, which was ordain'd of God to denominate them rizhtc- ous. The law (which requires obedience) having its end i 00- thing but the righteouſneſs which ſatisfied it, call'd the righteou!- neſs of Chrift, Rom. 10. 4. with Tit. 2. 13. 2 Pet. 1. x. Whereil the, law is eſtabliſhed, Rom. 3. 21. and its righteouſne(s fulniled, Rom. 3.31. and $. 4. inherent graces are not called the righteou!- neſs, but our own, Mat. 5. 20. Luke 21. 19. Rom. 10. $. 251.5 8. Col. 1.4. 1 Per. 1.21. Chrift is fo far righteouſneſs as he 15 t'e end of the Law, and that he is in the ſatisfaction it ſelf, not 18 cc- miſſion which is an effect of it. 3, 10 That 1 may know him g, and the power of i reſurreQion h, and the fellowſhip of his ſufferias : being made conformable to his dearh &. g As conſequent upon the former he had by winning of Chritt, he doth here inift upon Santtification, which would reſult trom Faith's exerting it ſelf, in a further ſaving experimental know- ledge of Chriſt, to be found in whom, he undervalued all belid?s conformity to Chriſt in holineſs, being to have communion Wit him in righteouſneſs, 1 Cor. 1. 30. God having, appointed tiwie who are found in Chrift, to be conform'd to his image in holine?1s, Rom. $. 29.2Cor. 3. 18. his ſaving knowledg2 is expreis'd el{2whers in Scripture by the ſenſes, Fob. 10.4. 2 Cor. 4. 6. 2 Cor. P14. Ephe 1. 18, 1 Pet. 2.3. Alland only thoſe found in Chriſt, do {o £10W him, Fohy. 5. 20. and 6. 46, 69. Zeb. 8. 11, and deitre 10 to £00 him, c. 1. 9. that they may have a lively ſenſe of his power, com- munion and conformity, hþ "the power of his Reſurrection in Us, ;. e. from the death of the Soul, under a privation of ſpiritual tC, and the image of God, untonewneſs of Life by the efectual Work: ing of the ſame ſpirit which raiſed Chriſt himſelf from the « £29, Rom. 6.4, 10. Eph. 1. 20.and 2. 5, 6. called the firſt Reſ! urrection, When the Soul is raiſed from under th2 dominion 07
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tim- 12 Not as thongh I had already * attained, either 2. were already * perfe& mz: but I follow after z, If 12 that 1 may apprehend 0 that for which p alſo I am ap- ' prehended of Chriſt Jeſus 4.