OF HIS PEOPLE: OR, THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION BY BY THE LATE REV. RICHARD RAWLIN, FETTER-LANE, LONDON. FIRST PRINTED IN 1741. VOL. I. EDINBURGHI : JAMES TAYLOR, 21 GEORGE STREET. JOHNSTONE AND HUNTER. PATON AND RITCHIE. LONDON: W. ALLAN, PATERNOSTER ROW. GLASGOW G. GALLIE. W. INNES. PREFACE. THE following work was originally published in the year 1741. Its title was, 'CHRIST THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF HIS PEOPLE; OR, THE Doctrine of JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH IN HIM: represented in several Sermons preached at the Merchants' Lecture at Pinner's Hall, by RICHARD RAWLINpublished at the request of the Committee of said Lecture.' Little is known of its Author. He was one of a not inconsiderable band of learned, laborious, and godly nonconformist or Presbyterian ministers who flourished in various parts of England, before the influence of Arianism, in the course of the last century, had so blighted Presbyterianism in that country as to make it, in the estimation of the English public, a synonyme for Unitarianism. The following treatise has been long scarce. It is well fitted to be useful to all classes, from its clear and Scriptural discussion of the important subject of which it treats. On this account, while it is printed in such a type and form, as to fit it for the perusal of aged believers among the humbler classes, the Greek and Hebrew quotations have been preserved in the notes for the sake of the student. At the same time, it should not for a moment be imagined that it can ever be a substitute for the magnificent treatise of Owen on the subject, of which, indeed, the present work may be considered a digest. No liberties have been taken with the original, except those merely verbal changes rendered necessary by changing it from the form of sermons, into the more suitable form of a treatise. CHAPTER I.-OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS IN THE 1. Man is naturally and necessarily under law 4. We have no such righteousness of our own, 5. If justified, it must be by the righteousness CHAPTER II.-How WE COME TO HAVE AN INTEREST 1. This Righteousness was wrought out by Cove- 2. It was for this end Christ took on him our 5. An actual interest obtained upon our union BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR. Or this respectable minister there remains, we believe, no biographical memorial in print; and it is a few particulars only that we are enabled to snatch from oblivion. He received his academical learning under Mr Payne, a dissenting minister, and tutor of respectability and eminence, at Saffron-Walden, in Essex, and a friend of Dr. Owen. After finishing his studies, Mr Rawlin was taken, as chaplain, into the family of Warner, Esq. of Bansfield-hall, Suffolk. The first place where we hear of him as a preacher is Bishop-Stortford, in Essex, where he was settled several years. From thence he removed to London, to take charge of the congregation in Fetter-lane, in the room of Mr Tingey. He was set apart in that place on the 24th of June 1730. After Mr Rawlin had been settled with his people about two years, they built a new meeting-house for him, on the opposite side of the way, where the church still assembles. In the year 1740, Mr Rawlin was elected one of the six preachers of the Merchants' Lecture at Pinners'-Hall, in the room of Mr Bragge. He entered upon his services at that lecture, by delivering a series of discourses upon the doctrine of justification, founded upon Isaiah xlv. 24. These he published in an octavo volume, in 1741, under the title of 'Christ the Righteousness of His People; or, |