7:16; Heb. 10:31; 12:27.] of God left off to trouble me: now went I
also home rejoicing, for the grace and love of God. So when I came
home, I looked to see if I could find that sentence, "Thy
righteousness is in heaven," but could not find such a saying;
wherefore my heart began to sink again, only that was brought to my
remembrance, "He is made unto us of God wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption." By this word I saw the other
sentence true.

For by this scripture I saw that the man Christ Jesus, as he is
distinct from us as touching his bodily presence, so he is our
righteousness and sanctification before God. Here, therefore, I
lived for some time very sweetly at peace with God through Christ.
Oh, methought, Christ! Christ! there was nothing but Christ that was
before my eyes. I was now not only for looking upon this and the
other benefits of Christ apart, as of his blood; burial, or
resurrection, but considering him as a whole Christ--as he in whom
all these, and all his other virtues, relations, offices, and
operations met together, and that he sat on the right hand of God in
heaven.

Further, the Lord did also lead me into the mystery of the union
with the Son of God--that I was joined to him, and that I was flesh
of his flesh and bone of his bone; and now was that a sweet word to
me in Eph. 5:30. By this also was my faith in him as my
righteousness, the more confirmed in me; for if he and I were one,
then his righteousness was mine, his merits mine, his victory also
mine. Now, I could see myself in heaven and earth at once: in
heaven, by my Christ, by my Head, by my Righteousness and Life,
though on earth by body or person.