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many powerful incentives to give all diligence in the study , the practice , Jand the culture of all virtue . ' * The righteousness of God / ' To become righteousness , is evidently the same thing as to become righteous y in the former part of the text , to be made sin * rs the same thing && to be made in that sense a sinner , L e . a sufferer : this is a common form of
speaking in the Jewish language . Thus , Gentile converts are said , " to have been sometimes darkness but now light in the ILord : "—that is , whereas they were once ignorant , they are now blest with the most important and the most consolatory know * ledge . €€
The righteousness of God , " may , according to the peculiarity of the sacred language , signify eminent or distinguished ri g hteousness . ; we know that it was the end of the sufferings of Christ , to redeem us from iniquity , and to purify us to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works . Or ^ it matjrnat unjustly be interpreted ^ such a righteousness as will be approved and accepted of God , under a dispensation so
advantageous as the Christian , in opposition to that external and ceremonial righteousness , which was the boast of Jews and hypocrites y and in distinction from that partial and defective righteousness which constituted the greatest glory of the gentile world * Or again , it may not improperly be explained to be a rig hteousness like that of God , in which according to the language of our 4
Apostle , in respect to Gentile sinners , C the new man / ' consisted , which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness /* ( Eph . iv . 24 . ) All these interpretations amount ta the same thing \ upon any of them , " the righteousness of God , " is a sincere , universal ^ and illustrious righteousness ; and to become the righteonsttess of God , is to become truly
without pretence , comprehensivel y * without exception , and * as far as possible eminentl y ^ without blemish or imperfection ^ righteous in the sight of God-Upon the whole then it seems that we shall have tfie true sense of this important passage in the following paraphrase *
God appointed him who had done no sin , to endure such afflictions , as are the just punishment of the most atrocious crimes , from which his innocence might have pleaded an ex ^ emption , if a future indemnity had not been provided him ; for < mr sakes he was thus appointed to endure such afflictions , Am
^ k * - a < M ^ k \ . * m \ . A -Am * ^ Am . _~ ^^ * . ' ^ P tti # t ttioved by the consideration of his sufferings ^ and the important truths that are thereby suggested and evidenced , we might apply with such diligence and zeal to the practice and the cultivation of all righteousness , as to attain to such measures of it as should entitle us to the mercy and acceptance of God , and
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140 Explanation of Christs being made Sin .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/28/
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