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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44575	A discourse concerning the imputation of Christ's righteousness to us, and our sins to him with many useful questions thereunto pertaining, resolved : together with reflections more at large upon what hath been published concerning that subject by Mr. Robert Ferguson in his Interest of reason in religion, and by Dr. John Owen in his book styled, Communion with God / by Thomas Hotchkis ...	Hotchkis, Thomas.	1675 (1675)	Wing H2890; ESTC R4137	132,797	236

and the like vertues Col. 3.12 Put on as the elect of God bowels of mercies kindness Eph. 4.22 23. Put off concerning the former conversation the old man and v. 24. Put on that new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness 1 Pet. 5.5 Be ye clothed with humility Our own righteousness in the several branches thereof is that which in many Scriptures is commended to us under the notion of splendid rayment which adorns us makes us lovely in the eyes of God and which is in his sight of great price 1 Pet. 3.3 5. 1 Tim. 2.9 10. To this purpose I might instance in many sayings out of the Proverbs of Solomon were it needful But forasmuch as several Scriptures are objected to the contrary of what hath been here said in the first branch of my Answer I will therefore specifie some of the chief of them and reply thereunto Object Rev. 3.18 What else is meant by the white rayment there mentioned but the Righteousness of Jesus Christ Answ 1. The Question may as well be demanded What is meant by the Gold there spoken of but the Righteousness of Christ For we are not otherwise clothed with the robe or rayment than we are enriched with the gold of Christs Righteousness 2. By the white rayment is there meant our own righteousness consisting of such gracious dispositions and works of holiness which do adorn the Disciples of Christ in his sight more than the most Lilly-white and splendid rayment doth the greatest Princes in the eye of men And this I conceive to be meant by that rayment of needle-work wherein the Bride the Lambs wife is said to be brought unto him Ps 45.13 14. And this is that righteousness of the Saints wherewith they are said to be ‖ Rev. 19.8 arrayed as in fine linnen clean and white righteous works being that rayment wherewith every Christian man and woman should be clothed or adorned 1 Tim. 2.10 Object Rom. 13.14 Are not Christians there commanded to put on the Righteousness of Christ Answ 1. Whatever be the thing which the believing Romans are there commanded to put on I am perswaded that the Apostles meaning there is That we should put it on not as a garment but rather as Armour we being as well said to put on this as that He prosecutes that Metaphor mentioned v. 12. Put on the Armour of light 2. Consequently I think that we have no more reason to conclude that by the garment which we are there commanded to put on is meant Christs Righteousness than that his Righteousness is it which under the Metaphor of the Armour of light we are commanded to put on in the verse next before But I am content that the Reader judg of them 3. I know no surer way rightly to understand what the Apostles true meaning was That we should put on than by considering what we should put off Now forasmuch as the things which he would have us put off are what he stiles the works of darkness i. e. wicked works of all sorts especially such as are there named I may therefore safely I doubt not conclude That by our putting on the Lord Jesus Christ he means our putting on the graces or vertues of the Lord Jesus Christ these being the image of our Lord Christ and it being ordinary to call the image of a thing or person by the name of the person or thing which it doth resemble And in this sence the word Christ is used Gal. 4.19 My little children of whom I travel in birth again till Christ be formed in you Object Gal. 3.27 Doth not the Apostle there mean that the Galatians having been baptized into Christ had put on the Righteousness of Christ Answ By Christ there is not meant the Righteousness of Christ and what is the very thing there meant by the Apostle that the baptized Galatians had put on I know no surer way to understand than by considering the scope of the Apostle in that Epistle what it was that he would have them to put off Now that which the Apostle in this Epistle especially would have the Galatians to put off was Judaism in all the parts of it as such So that as by the Lord Jesus Christ in Rom. 13.14 is meant Christianity in opposition to Gentilism or those heathenish vices there specified so by Christ in Gal. 3.27 I conceive is meant Christianity or the practice of Christian Religion in opposition to Judaism As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ not Moses you have taken upon you the profession of Christian Religion not that of the Jewish or Mosaical Law Object Is not Christs Righteousness the thing it self meant by the wedding garment Mat. 22.12 Answ No but those holy qualifications and gracious dispositions wherewith a Christian should attend upon God in his sacred Ordinances and in his solemn approaches to God should be vested with even as men upon festival occasions do apparrel themselves in rayment suitable thereunto Object Is not the Righteousness of Christ that garment of salvation and robe of righteousness wherewith God is said Esa 61.10 to have clothed or covered his Church Answ It were easie to name many Authors who have perverted that Scripture to such a sence whereas the truth is that there is no more cause to think that the Righteousness of Christ is meant by the garment there mentioned than where mention is made of the same word by the Prophet elsewhere Ch. 52.1 saying Awake awake put on thy strength O Zion put on thy beautiful garments O Jerusalem The very truth of the matter is 1. As the words are a promise although after the manner of Gods speaking by his Spirit in the Prophets it is expressed in the preterperfect tense and as the good promised is expressed by the name of Salvation and Righteousness these in effect being one thing so by Righteousness is meant Gods beneficence and bounty with the several fruits of it confer'd upon his Church in their preservations deliverances restorations In this sence the word Righteousness is frequently taken in Scripture Hos 10.12 It is time to seek the Lord till he come and rain Righteousness upon you Ps 24.5 He shall receive Righteousness from the God of his salvation so that there is no more cause to affirm That by Righteousness in Esa 61.10 is meant Christs personal Righteousness than to make the same construction of the word in the places fore-cited where God promiseth to rain Righteousness upon them or that they shall receive Righteousness from him as the God of their salvation 2. As for the Metaphorical expression of being clothed and covered with the garment of salvation and robe of righteousness it is an allusion to the custom of the Jews and indeed of all Nations which was to clothe and attire themselves sutably to their present condition whether of prosperity or adversity fasting or feasting times as is expressed v. 3. of that Chapter in