and revealed a Method, and have or will put it in Execution to make a free Agent, who has broke the Laws of Justice, and cannot poffibly make Reftitution, more qualified for the Enjoyment of them than if he had kept his firft Station; because who believes moft is forgiven, will love the moft, &c. is renouncing all Pretences of Right, depending wholly upon them, acknowledging an Obligation infinitely beyond what he could do upon any other Account, renders that which, upon this Foot, is due to every Person in the Trinity, and cannot be due to any other Beings; because no other Beings can give any Security for the Performance of fuch a Promife; fo is reputed juft, and worthy to enjoy the Benefit of what is purchased for him, and qualified for the Enjoyment of that Happiness. This Perfon, this just one, is emblematically reprefented in the Names, is Glory or Gravity; and this by that in the Names which gives Weight to every Thing, Pfal. xxxvii. 6. And he fhall bring forth his Juftice as the Light. Ibid. 1. 6. And the Names fhall declare his Righteousness (Justice) Ibid. xcvii. 11. Light is fown for the Righte ous (Juft) Prov. iv. 18. But the path of the just ones is as the shining Light,

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that shineth more and more unto the perfect Day. Ibid. xiii. 9. the Light of the just ones rejoiceth. Ifa. xlv. 21. I am Jehovah, and there are no Aleim befides me. An Irradiator that justifies, or Means of Salvation, there are none befides Ibid. lxii. 1.— Till her Righteouf

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nefs go forth as Light; and her Salvation burn like a Lamp. Mich. vii. 9. He will bring me forth to the Light, and I fhall behold his Juftice. Mal. iv. 9. The Shemoh (the Light from the Sun) of Justice Shall go forth with healing in his Wings. Pfal. cxlii. 8. The Righteous fhall compafs me about, when thou shalt have dealt bountifully with me. So under the Emblem of a King, Jer. xxiii. 5. xxxiii. 15.—I will raife to the Beloved a juft Branch, and he hall reign King- and this is the Name whereby he shall be called, Jehovah our Juftifier. Pfal. cx. 4. Thou art an Interceffor for ever after the Order of my King the just one. Zech. ix. 9. Behold thy King cometh to thee the just one, and Saviour, lowly and riding upon an Afs, &c. Dan. ix. 7. Thine O Lord is the Righteoufnefs. So under the Emblem of a Teacher, Joel ii. 23. Ifaiah xxx. 20. for he hath given you a Teacher of Righteoufness. Amos v. 24. for Judgment is

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rolled away, as Water does, and Righteoufness as a fierce Torrent. Ifaiah lxiv. 6. We have been as an impure Perfon all of us; and our Righteoufnefs like the Garmenty of inftituted Emblems*.

I have not yet prepared others to receive Explanations of the New Teftament, I fhall offer a few Hints below; but this cannot be mistaken, fo fhall infert a few Texts to prove that Jehovah is our Rightcoufnefs, fo that Chrift was of the Effence. Rom. ix. 30. What shall we fay then? that the Gentiles which followed not after Righteoufness, have attained to Righteousness, even the Righteousness which is of Faith: But Ifrael, which followed after the Law of Righteousness, hath not attained to the Law of Righteoufness. Wherefore? because they fought it, not by Faith, but as it were by the Works of the Law. Ib. x. 3. For they being ignorant of God's Righteousness, and going about to establish their own Righteousness, have not fubmitted themfelves unto the Righteoufness of God. For Chrift is the end of the Law to every one that believeth. Phil. iii. 9. Not

*i.e. No intrinfick Righteousness in us, or real Holiness; but all Outfide, formal, and no more apart of us than our Garments,

having mine own Righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Chrift, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith. Acts iii. 14. But ye denied the holy one, and the just. vii. 52. And they have flain them which fhewed before of the coming of the just one, of whom ye have been now the Betrayers and Murderers. xxii. 14. The God of our Fathers hath chofen thee, that thou shouldest know his Will, and fee that just one, and shouldest hear the Voice of his Mouth. Rom. iii. 25. Whom God hath fet forth to be a Propitiation, through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the Remiffion (palling over) of Sins that are past

To declare I fay at this time his Righteoufness that he might be just, and the Juftifier of him which believeth in Jefus. iv. 5. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his Faith is counted for Righteoufnefs. ver. 25. Who was delivered for our Offences, and was raised again for our Juftification. ver. 19.—For as by one Man's Difobedience many were made Sinners: fo by the Obedience of one, fhall many be made righteous. viii. 30. Whom he called, them he alfo jufti

fied: and whom he justified, them he alfo glorified-33. Who shall lay any thing to the Charge of God's Elect? It is God that justifieth. 1 Cor. i. 30. Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us Wisdom and Righteousness, and Sanctification and Redemption. vi. 11. But ye are washed, but ye are fanctified, but ye are juftified in the Name of the Lord Jefus, and by the Spirit of our God. 2 Cor. v. 21. For he made him to be Sin for us, who knew no Sin; that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him. 1 John ii. 1. We have an Advocate with the Father, Jefus Christ the Righteous: and he is the Propitiation for our Sins, &c.

So, in another Senfe, the Word NO is Sin. They also make it to expiate, to purify. 'Tis fuppofed that, as the Sinner was guilty of Death, fomething was to be fubftituted, put in his Stead. Its Blood was to be fhed, fo put to Death, burnt, or, &c. But, though this was all that could be done typically, this is far fhort of the Idea of the Word, and fo of the Action that was to be performed for, or in Lieu of the Sinner. The Idea is clear, Gen. xxxi. 39. That which was torn, I brought not to thee, I bare the Loss of it [Expiabam] of my Hand didst thou reVOL. VI.

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