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A51266	The grand inquiry who is the righteous man: or, The character of a true beleever in his approaches towards heaven. Whereunto is added The resolution of a case of separation betwixt man and wife, propounded to the author by a party much concerned. By William Moore rector at Whalley in Lancashire.	Moore, William, rector of Whalley, Lancashire.	1658 (1658)	Wing M2612; ESTC R214225	54,012	181

but a righteousnesse wrought for us not in our selves but in the Lord. In the Lord have I righteousnesse and in the Lord shall all Israel be justified Hence Jer. 23.6 This is his Name whereby he shall be called THE LORD OVR RIGHTEOUSNES And as it is the language of the Prophets so of the Apostles Hence is it that they call it the Righteousnesse of God Rom. 3.21 The righteousnesse of God without the Law is manifested V. 22. The righteousnesse of God which is by the Faith of Jesus And Phil. 3.9 The righteousnesse which is of God by Faith 2. That this Righteousnesse of God is received by Faith So the Apostle there explains it in Phil. 3.8 9. I count all things but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him not having mine own righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is through the Faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by Faith By Faith it is that we receive Christ Joh. 1.12 As many as received him to them he gave power to become the sons of God even to as many as believed on his Name To receive him and to believe on him is one and the same By faith we receive Christ so by faith we receive the righteousnesse of Christ And take notice of the manner how it is worthy your observation that you may know the nature of that Faith which justifies 1. We receive this righteousnesse into our heads hence knowing sometimes is set for believing Joh. 17.3 This is life eternal to know thee and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent Then 2. We receive this righteousnesse into our hearts As we know it so we love it Hence that phrase Act. 15.9 Purifying their hearts by Faith And then 3 We receive this righteousnesse into our lives and conversations As we love it so in some measure we are transformed into it So the Apostle followes it Phil. 3.10 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable to his death Where there is a receiving of the righteousnesse of Christ by saith there is a conforming to the same likenesse For you must know that true faith is not an idle speculative notion of the brain but a powerful working grace upon the heart Faith is sometimes reckoned amongst the gifts of the Spirit 1 Cor. 12.9 And sometimes it is reckoned amongst the fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5 22. Faith is sometimes a Gift and sometimes a Grace As it is a Gift so it is speculative and notional as it is a Grace so it is powerful and practical And this at once if righly understood easily reconciles St. Pauls conclusion That a man is justified by Faith without the deeds of the Law with that of St. James Ye see then how that by works a man is justified and not by faith only Not by faith which is alone but by a working Faith Though works be not the meritorious cause in point of justification but the righteousnesse of Christ received by faith yet this faith is working and it works this righteousnesse as into our heads so into our hearts and into our lives Though it be not this work of righteousnesse wrought in us that properly justifies but the righteousnesse of Christ wrought for us yet true justifying faith thus receives this righteousnesse 3. That this Faith thus receiving Christ is accounted unto us for righteousnesse God imputes that righteousnesse of Christ to us if we thus believe Jam. 2.23 Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousnesse and he was called the friend of God That righteousnesse whereby Abraham was justified in the sight of God it was a righteousnesse imputed Not a Putative righteousnesse as our Adversaries scornfully reproach it but a reall righteousnesse the righteousnesse of Christ yet an imputed righteousnesse So is that righteousnesse by which we are justified Rom. 4.23 It was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him who raised up Jesus from the dead We are justified in the same way and by the same faith that Abraham was Gal. 3.6 Even as Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousnesse So it is with us Vers 7. They that are of the faith of Abraham are the children of Abraham Vers 9. They which be of the faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham What Abraham's faith was we read Heb. 11.7 Abraham when he was tryed by faith offered up Isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son of whom it was said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure Did Abraham see no further then this figure Yes doubtlesse In this he beheld God sacrificing his own son on that very mount where he should have offered Isaac Isaac was but the Figure Christ is the Substance Saith our Saviour Joh. 8.56 Abraham rejoyced to see my day and he saw it and was glad And so all the Patriarchs 1 Cor. 10.4 They all did drink of the same spiritual drink for they drank of that rock that followed them and that rock was Christ They of that rock that followed them as we of that rock that is gone before us Abraham saw Christ with the eye of Faith and believed on him and testified his faith by his works faith working by love saith God Gen. 22.12 Now I know thou lovest me seeing thou hast not withheld thy son thine only son from me And this faith was counted unto him for righteousnesse Thus may you see what that righteousnesse is by which we stand justified in the sight of God It is not the righteousnesse of Works that exact unsinning obedience to the whole Law of God but it is the righteousnesse of Faith the righteousnesse of Christ received by faith which is accounted unto us for righteousnesse And thus you may easily resolve the Riddle How a man may be righteous and yet a sinner Though a sinner in himself in relation to the righteousnesse of Works yet without sin in Christ in relation to the righteousnesse of Faith the righteousnesse of Christ through faith imputed unto us for righteousnesse And this is that righteousnesse which intitles us to all the promises and gives us an interest in this joy of Saints 1 Pet. 1.8 Believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory But because this is a point of such high concernment for the further clearing of it a question must be here propounded How a man may be justified by the righteousnesse of another This is indeed the dark side of the cloud not to be discern'd with the eye of sense or reason Consult we with the sacred Oracles which cannot deceive us Rom. 4.5 6. To him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly

if but a minute in it How mercilesse and cruell is the fire above all other clements but then to be thrown into those unquenchable flames the fire that shall never go out who can dwell with everlasting burnings But yet further Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his Angels Lord have mercy upon me saith the woman in the Gospell for my daughter is grievously tormented with a Devill But one Devill yet grievously tormented and it was her daughter yet Lord have mercy upon me Do not your ears tingle and your hearts tremble to think of that heavie doom when sentenc'd amongst all those hellish Fiends those infernal Furies amongst all the Devils in that pit of darknesse in those everlasting burnings and for ever and ever Oh what ghastly looks what fearfull howlings and what hideous yellings Then shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth indeed Take yet another sight Isa 5.14 Hell hath inlarged her mouth wide and their glory and their multitude and their pomp and he that rejoyceth shall descend into it He that now rejoyceth in his pomp and glory and with all his multitude for hells mouth is wide Mat. 7.13 Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat But strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be that finde it Beloved here is our rejoycing that we are not in the number of those many but in the number of these few that we are prepared for life and delivered from that sad destruction Rom. 8.1 There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ So no pit nor darknesse nor fire nor Devill to torment them Luk. 1.74 He hath delivered us out of the hand of our enemies that we might serve him without fear We are delivered from them and the more we consider the horror of that bottomlesse pit that blacknesse of darknesse that unquenchable fire the more we consider those fearful howlings and those hideous yellings with the Devil and his Angels the greater is our joy especially whilest we take notice of the multitudes that go down to hell That so many millions are devoured in that pit and that we are delivered where so few escape the more they are the more cause we have to rejoyce in that great deliverance As the Israelites whilest they stood safe upon the shore and beheld the drowning of the Egyptians in the sea or as they when delivered from the bloudy plot of that cruel Haman wheresoever the word came the Jewes they had light and gladnesse a feast and a good day If they for a deliverance from that which kils the body how much more we for a deliverance from that which casts both soul and body into hell The greater the deliverance is the more is our joy Rejoyce ye Righteous 3 Whilest we look without us Whilest we behold the glory of the heavens above us the riches of the earth below us that variety of all creatures round about us Psal 8.3 When I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained What is man that thou art mindfull of him or the son of man that thou visitest him Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet all sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field the fowls of the air and the fish of the the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea All things to serve Man that goodly canopy of heaven that covers us so bespangled with variety of stars that rich green mantle of the earth that supports us so bestudded with variety of plants those vast dominions both of air and water so peopled with an infinite variety of creatures not only for mans necessity but his recreation and delight All under mans command So in their first creation Gen. 1.26 Let us make man in our own image after our own likenesse and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowle of the air and over the cattell and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth It is true indeed man by his fall as he hath defaced Gods image so hath he forfeited his rule But here is the joy of Saints Christ hath renew'd their title 1 Cor. 3.21 All things are yours whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours and ye are Christs and Christ is Gods All are yours ye are the heirs of God and joynt heirs with Christ who is heir of all things And is not here matter of great joy We see the men of the world how they rejoyce when they have gotten but a little but a very little in comparison of the whole world when Alcibiades viewed his Kingdoms in a Map they seemed but as the prick of a pin in comparison of the Globe But the whole world is yours As Paul in another case If any man have cause to glory I much more O ye that are highly favoured be not awanting to your selves Are ye in distresse in necessities in wants Do ye murmur and complain It is because your eyes are held as Elisha's servant Behold the mountain is full of horses of fire and chariots of fire round about Elisha You have the wealth of the whole world about you All 's yours Do ye want something as ye think but ye want nothing as God thinks Though ye have it not in your own hands yet is it in his hands who knowes what is better for you then you do your selves Every man is not an Abraham fit to be exceeding rich And what good doth a long garment on the back of a little child you have his word Psal 34.10 The Lions lack and suffer hunger but they that fear the Lord shall want no good thing The Lion is a beast of prey he can feed upon dead carkasses whilest others perish in the famine yet sooner shall the Lion lack then they that fear the Lord any thing which may be for Gods glory or their good Do we not see a Daniel as fair and as well liking with his pulse and water as those that feed at the Kings table So God suites a portion to their mindes and they are content with what they have They desire no more And here 's a wealth beyond that of Alexander Who so rich as he that hath as much as he desires Godlinesse with contentment is great gain Without ifs or ands it is so it is gain gain with a witnesse great gain Nay more what can you desire more here 's gain with contentment O ye covetous muck-worms ye that still feed upon the earth that toyle and sweat and vex and fret rising up betimes going late to bed eating the bread of carefulnesse scarce giving rest unto your bodies nor yet peace to