righteousness for His name's sake. Let the truth be no abstract thing, but a practical and living reality. Call ye Jesus Christ, Lord? Then be ye subject to those that are placed over you in Him. Believe ye in Him? Then seek to know His will concerning you, that you may not do your own works, but His. Are ye members of one body? Have a care for one another, and love one another as Christ loved you, and gave Himself for you. It is written in Psalm xxxiii., "The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry;" that is, His eyes are upon the men walking by faith in His righteousness, because their righteousness is of God, and their work is the work of His hands, and He is glorified in them. Such a walk will indeed provoke the wrath of those that believe not, because it reproveth them, and condemneth their unrighteousness. Therefore they are accounted blessed that suffer for righteousness' sake; and happy are they, for the spirit of glory and of Christ resteth upon them; and though their afflictions be many, the Lord delivereth them out of all. But it is not so with the unrighteous; the face of the Lord is against them, and He knoweth them afar off; neither will they be able to stand in the judgment. It is solemnly declared, that "the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God;" that "there shall in no wise enter into His kingdom anything that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a like: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." And that the Church of Christ will bear such a witness for God on the earth, condemning the ungodly, there can be no doubt, for she is set forth as coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and that preparedness is shown to consist in the fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is. the righteousness of saints. See to it, then, my brethren, that ye be clothed upon with the righteousness of God-standing before God accepted through faith in the blood of Christ; and also inwardly righteous, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of God blameless. Thus must ye evince and prove your faith in Christ; thus must ye prove your ownselves, and show that Christ is in you, and that you are abiding in Him-bringing forth the fruits of righteousness; and then you shall not be ashamed before Him at his coming. Let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as Christ is righteous. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God. W. E. Painter, 342, Strand, London, Printer. CONTENTS OF THE SERIES. 1. Reciprocal Duties of a Pastor and People. 2. On Reading the Holy Scriptures. 3. One God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity. 4, 5. The Sacrament of Baptism. 6. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. 7. Earthly and Heavenly Things. 8. The Righteousness in which Man is accepted before God. 9. The Righteousness of Man under the Law and under the Gospel. 10. The Constitution of the Christian Church. 11, 12. The Institution and Obligation of the Sabbath. No. IX.] [Price 3d. THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF MAN UNDER THE LAW AND UNDER THE GOSPEL. THE righteousness in which a man stands accepted before God, as well as that personal righteousness, consisting of his walk and conversation, by which he continues in a state of justification, proceeds alike from God. This great truth has been manifested under every dispensation. And if we proceed to consider the subject before us in the light of this truth, we shall find, that though the righteousness in which man is accepted before God, both under the law and under the gospel, proceeds alike from Him, yet the latter differs from the former in an important particular, inasmuch as it is that righteousness of God, of which He had in times past only spoken, and revealed by word and promise, and in divers manners, unto the fathers by the prophets, and which the works of the law only shadowed forth, but could not confer. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not only a revelation from God, but a declaration of God's own acts, and which acts constitute that righteousness in which man is now clothed a righteousness wrought by God Himself in our flesh, through the incarnation of the Eternal Son, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary-a righteousness wrought M for us by His obedience unto death—an everlasting righteousness-a righteousness which shall never be abolished, but which shall endure through eternal ages, because it is the very substance of those things which were before only spoken of—the righteousness of God Himself—that righteousness of God without law, to which the law witnessed, and of which the prophets spake even the righteousness wrought by the faith of God's Son, and which is unto all and upon all that believe. So that the righteousness which we possess through the faith of the Son of God is, in a far higher sense than that of the law, the righteousness of God, not being merely a revelation of God's will, but a righteousness wrought by God Himself. And, in like manner, man's personal righteousness is of a far higher character than anything heretofore obtained by man, inasmuch as it is a righteousness wrought in him by the grace of regeneration and the gift of the Holy Ghost-a righteousness arising from his "living in the Spirit and walking in the Spirit" and in this respect man's personal righteousness is also pre-eminently the righteousness of God. Therefore, though the righteousness of the law was from God, and the works of God, in which He ordained that His people should walk, and by so walking were blameless, yet those things which were gain to them under that dispensation, they justly esteemed but loss and dung, compared with the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord, being desirous, above all things, that they might win Christ, and be found in Him, not having the righ teousness of the law, but that which is through the |