The Collected Writings of J.N. Darby [Hardback]

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Excerpt: Christ lays the ground of righteousness in a new way (God's righteousness, not man's, though wrought out in Him who was, and is, a man, and recognized by setting that man at God's right hand), so that grace can go out according to it to the glory of God by us.

Thus sin is put away, conscience purged, the curse of the law gone for them who were under it, righteousness wrought out, that the blessing and the promise might come in all fullness on believers through Jesus Christ. All that was brought out in need before on man's part, or promised on God's, was such, on the one hand, and finds its accomplishment, on the other, in Christ; and all the moral elements, on the ground of which God had dealt with man, are brought out, and established in grace in Christ-promises which man could not take up in righteousness, nor God righteously confer on him, yet which He surely must fulfill, as His own promises now run freely in all their fullness, on the ground of an everlasting and divine righteousness, and flow forth from divine love to believers, found as sinners among Jews or Gentiles, according to the import which is given to these promises by the death and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. The order is: sin—conscience (death and separation from God)-promise—law, raising the question of man's righteousness (law broken, and promise despised)—Christ's death (sin put away, the law's curse removed, conscience purged, righteousness divinely wrought out), and then He risen, as the head of a new race, in the power of the Spirit and eternal life-the promises enjoyed according to the divine counsels and divine righteousness; Christ being Himself the heir, after the pattern of the offered and risen Isaac, and believers in Him cleansed from sin and divinely righteous by that which was wrought before they were graffed in Him, after the power of a new life, and in the energy of the Holy Ghost.

Table of Contents

1. Familiar Conversations on Romanism by J.N. Darby

2. Familiar Conversations on Romanism - Infallibility by J.N. Darby

3. Familiar Conversations on Romanism - Holiness by J.N. Darby

4. Familiar Conversations on Romanism by J.N. Darby

5. The Testimony of God; or the Trial of Man, the Grace and the Government of God by J.N. Darby

6. Connection of the Cross With the Entire Development of God's Ways With Man by J.N. Darby