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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... up together; I the Lord have created it." Isa. xlv. 8. Here is something far more glorious than all that was ever before seen in the universe of Godl--a righteousness exalted to absolute perfection, and rendered infinitely glorious by the union of the divine with the human nature. God charged his Angels with folly, and the heavens are not clean in his sight, but with him who wrought this righteousness, he is " well pleased." The righteousness of Adam in innocence, or the righteousness of Angels in glory, was the righteousness of creatures, and therefore a limited righteousness. It consisted in the love and service of God, which they rendered with all their heart and strength; but further it could not go. Their righteousness was available in the time only while it continued to be performed, and it might cease and be lost. But that righteousness which the skies have poured down, is a righteousness that is infinite, and that shall never be abolished. Isa. li. 6, 8. It is a righteousness that was performed in a limited period of time, by Him who is called "Jehovah Our Righteousness;" but the glory of it was contemplated from eternity, while its efficacy extends back to the fall of man, and forward through all the ages of eternity. It is the "everlasting righteousness" which, as the prophet Daniel predicted, was brought in by the Messiah. It is "the righteousness of our God and Saviour JesusChrist" (2Pet.i.l), of which Noah wasapreacher (2 Pet. ii. 5), and of which he was an heir (Heb. xi. 7, ) the ministration of which was committed to the Apostles, (2 Cor. iii. 9.) It shall be through eternity the delight of the Father, the admiration of angels, and the song of the redeemed. It is in the Bible that this Righteousness is made known. In the...