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hath need thereof; not by the person pardoned, but in the way, saith another, in which
T have obtained it. So then, to speak to the question more at large, the pardon that
you, and Mercy, and these boys have obtained, was obtained by another ; to wit, by
Him that let you in at the gate. And He hath obtained it in this double way: He has
performed righteousness to cover you, and spilt His blood to wash you in.

Cur. But if He parts with His righteousness to us, what will He have for Himself?

Great. He has more righteousness than you have need of, or than He needeth
Himself

Cur. Pray make that appear. ,

Great. With all my heart: but first I must premise, that He of whom we are now
about to speak is one that has not His fellow. He has two natures in one person,
plain to be distinguished, impossible to be divided. Unto each of these natures a
righteousness belongeth, and each righteousness is essential to that nature: so that
one may as easily cause the nature to be extinct, as to separate its justice or righteous-
ness from it. Of these righteousnesses, therefore, we are not made partakers so that
they, or any of them, should be put upon us that we might be made just, and live
thereby. Besides these, there is a righteousness which this Person has, as these two
natures are joined in one. And this is not the righteousness of the Godhead as dis-
tinguished from the manhood, nor the righteousness of the manhood as distinguished
from the Godhead; but a righteousness which standeth in the union of both natures,
and may properly be called the righteousness that is essential to His being prepared of
God to the capacity of the mediatory office, which He was to be entrusted with. Tf
He parts with His first righteousness, He parts with His Godhead; if He parts with
His second righteousness, He parts with the purity of His manhood; if He parts with
His third, He parts with that perfection that capacitates Him for the office of media-
tion. He has, therefore, another righteousness, which standeth in performance or
obedience to a revealed will; and that is it that He puts upon sinners, and that by
which their sins are covered. Wherefore He gaith, “As by one man’s disobedi-
ence many were made sinners, so, by the obedience of One shall many be made
righteous.”’”

Cur. But are the other righteousnesses of no use to us?

Great. Yes; for though they are essential to His natures and office, and so cannor
be communicated to another, yet it is by virtue of them that the righteousness that
justifies is for that purpose efficacious. The righteousness of His Godhead gives
virtue to His obedience; the righteousness of His manhood giveth capability to His
obedience to justify; and the righteousness that standeth in the union of these two