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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	exceed_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,764	5	11.0489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86563	The righteous mans hope in his death: in a sermon at the funerall of Mr William Conye of Walpoole, justice of peace, and captain over the trained band in Marshland. / Preached by John Horne Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ at Southlyn in Norfolke 2d⁰ May 1648.	Horn, John, 1614-1676.	1649 (1649)	Wing H2808; Thomason E562_3; ESTC R206072	29,394	38

like lambs they die without any hope like senselesse and reasonlesse creatures that know little more then the beasts and so have scarce any more either hope or fear in what happens to them but as they fear not hell or vengeance so they hope not in God for heaven or blessednesse perhaps they say they hope well because they are senselesse of any thing they should fear and so hope they say they shall meet with no evill being sensuall like bruit beasts they see none to be feared or avoided by them from both these the righteous differ in their death they have hope in it But that we might the better understand and make use of what the holy Ghost here propounds to us I shall proceed in this order to speak to it I shall 1. Explain the terms 2. Confirm the truth of the Proposition and 3. Apply it 1. In the explication two things would be spoken to viz. 1. What or who is this righteous man and 2. What is the hope he hath in his death 1. Who is the righteous man here spoken of Quest and what is that which will put a man into the righteous estate here mentioned that is accompanied with hope in death A man is denominated righteous from righteousnesse Answ of which the Scripture mentions divers kindes as 1. A morall righteousnesse which stands in a just dealing between man and man so Abimelech asks if God will destroy a righteous nation Gen. 20.4 he meant a people that had done no wrong to Abraham wittingly but as God after answers him vers 6. walked in that matter in integrity doing but what in conscience they thought might be done c. and so David appeals to God to judge him according to his righteousnesse that is his blamelesse carriage towards Saul Psal 7.8 and so many Gentiles have been righteous that is just in their carriages towards men in what they judged to be their duty but this is not the righteousnesse nor these the righteous men here spoken of because this may be consistent with ignorance and enmity against God it being but a meer humane righteousnesse 2. A legall righteousnesse or a righteousnesse according to the law of God and that the Scripture mentions two waies viz. 1. Either that that is so indeed which stands in a full and perfect personall conformity to the law at all times and in all things never no not so much as in lust transgressing it for such righteousnesse the law requires in that it curseth every man that continueth not in all things that are contained in the book of the law to do them Gal. 3.10 and in this sense it is that the Scripture saith Rom. 3.10 11. Eccles 7.20 there is none righteous none that doth good and sinneth not c. 2. Or that that is judged and deemed of men to be such whenas they do but endeavour after the law and in many things transgresse it yea sin against the very end of it in that they go about to make themselves righteous in and by that which was given them to convince of them sin and let them see their need of righteousnesse freely given them of God in the promised seed This is that Paul cals a righteousnesse of a mans own which while men seek to maintain they submit not to the righteousnesse of God which is in Christ Rom. 10.3 and which he himself would not be found in Phil. 3.8 9. but in that which is of the faith of Christ a righteousnesse of works in which men from their zeal blamelessenesse endeavours after and performance of duties do trust in themselves that they are and judge themselves to be righteous as the Pharisee in Luk. 18.10 11. that trusted in himself that he was righteous because he did not as the looser sort was no Publicane no extortioner c. and because he was strickt for paying tiths and keeping fasting daies c. he saies not that he trusted to make himself righteous by so doing but that he was already righteous else he should not have so done this is a seeming righteousnesse and many that have but this are pure in their own eyes although they were never washed in and by the appearance of of the grace and and love of God Rev. 1.5 from their sinfullnesse never brought into Christ and justified through faith in his bloud and yet these I confesse may have hope and walk on confidently expecting happinesse and thinking this their righteousnesse advangious all their life time yea to their death but yet in death in the very pinch it will fail them and it will fare with them as with those that they speak of Job 8.13 14. 11.20 their hope will perish and be like the giving up of the Ghost it will die with them and so deceive them when it should stand them in greatest stead because it was not well bottomed nor sprung from living lasting principles their righteousnesse from which it sprung and on which they leaned was but a conceit of righteousnesse an appearing and not a reall righteousnesse approved of by God and therefore the hope grounded thereupon will shrink with it when God comes to touch it we may say of this righteousnesse and of them that are righteous in it Rom 2.28 as the Apostle of the circumcision and Jew that are but such in the outside that is not righteousnesse that is outward in the appearance nor he a righteous man that is one outwardly therefore we must go yet a little further to a righteousnesse exceeding this as much as Christ would have his disciples to exceed the Scribes and Pharisees or else no admission into heaven for them a righteousnesse indeed which hath Gods acceptance of which we come to take view in the next place viz. 3. A righteousnesse of faith which is called Gods righteousnesse an evangelicall righteousnesse which the Gospel sets forth and declares and God freely gives of which the Apostle Paul speaks very frequently as in Rom. 3.21 22. But now the righteousnesse of God without the law is manifested being witnessed both by the Law and Prophets even the righteousnesse of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all that beleeve and so in Rom. 1.17 In the Gospel the righteousnesse of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith or the just by faith shall live 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But what is the righteousness of God that he gives us Quest It 's Jesus Christ himself the Son of God Answ in whom God gives us justification and a righteous estate Rom. 10.4 Jer. 25.5 He is the end of the law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeves Hence the Prophets called him The Lord our righteousnesse and the Apostle Paul tels the beleevers that as of God they were in Christ Jesus so of God Christ was made to them wisdom righteousnesse c. Every one that hath him