Righteousness here, is the Righteousness which God bestows upon us; and which his Christ has wrought for us: And that Justification of a Sinner, which comes by the Faith of Jesus; The Faith in his Blood. For so indeed, the Apostle himself expounds it; that Phil. iii. 9. The Righteousness which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness, which is of God by Faith. And Rom. iii. 21, 22. He calls it the Righteousness of God without the Law, and by Faith of Jesus Christ, i.e. a Righteousness not obtained by our perfect fulfilling of the Law in our own Persons: But by our Believing and relying on the Son of God, fulfilling all Righteousness for us: Which, through a merciful Indulgence, now under the Gospel Covenant, is Imputed to us, as if it had been wrought by us.

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