The Lord Our Righteousness · §12 · John Wesley

His human righteousness

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The human righteousness of Christ belongs to him in his human nature, as he is the mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:5). This is either internal or external. His internal righteousness is the image of God, stamped on every power and faculty of his soul. It is a copy of his divine righteousness, so far as it can be imparted to a human spirit. It is a transcript of the divine purity, the divine justice, mercy, and truth. It includes love, reverence, and resignation to his Father, humility, meekness, gentleness, love to lost mankind, and every other holy and heavenly temper, and all these in the highest degree, without any defect, or mixture of unholiness.

1771 text

2. The human righteousness of Christ, belongs to him in his human nature; as he is the Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus. This is either internal or external. His internal righteousness is the image of God, stampt on every power and faculty of his soul. It is a copy of his divine righteousness, so far as it can be imparted to a human spirit. It is a transcript of the divine purity, the divine justice, mercy and truth. It includes love, reverence, resignation to his Father; humility, meekness, gentleness; love to lost mankind, and every other holy and heavenly temper: and all these in the highest degree, without any defect, or mixture of unholiness.

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On Jeremiah 23:6: what the righteousness of Christ is, how it is counted to believers, and a plea for peace among those who argue over the words.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

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Sermon 20 in the 1771 Works. Jeremiah 23:6.

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