Righteousness to the soul is what cloathing is to the body, whereby its shame and nakedness are covered. Blessed is the man whose iniquities are covered; — he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness: hence we are assured, that when God justifieth any believer, he is in himself, ungodly and unjust; and when he imputes Christ's righteousness to him, he is in himself without righteousness. Were it not thus, the scripture would not direct him to believe in another for his justification, nor would God impute righteousness to him, that he might be righteous. Thus our actual personal unrighteousness gives us the reason why, and makes room for, Christ being made of God to us righteousness.

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