Practical righteousness is consistency with Christ and inseparable from being born of God. We are born of God; we are His children, and can you conceive such a thing as the smallest unrighteousness either in God or Christ? As whosoever does righteousness is born of God, so we may say that whosoever is born of God does righteousness. It is what grace secures by a new nature in our conduct which points to that source and no other. What could more effectually act on the conscience, where there was a new life from God? [23]