202 Perf bl Love gives Boldnefs, &c. S E R M. which nothing can be more unaccountable, VIII. confidering how fully fuch pretences are dif- `"" approved by plain reafon, and the current of the fcripture declarations. Others abufe the doctrine of Chrift's facrifice, and of faith in his blood, by putting it in the place of a good confcience for giving us boldnefs in the judgment. But certainly to hope in Chrift for obtaining the favour of God, while men continue in their tranfgreflïonF, is to make him the minger offin, and to make void the divine law, which he came not to djiroy but to fulfil. Confider his own decifion of this point, Matt. vii. 24. LT/hofaever heareth theft fayings of mine and doth them, I will liken him to a wife man, who built his houfe upon a Rock ; and the rain defcended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that houfe, and it fell not, for, it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth theft fayings of mine and doth them not, (hall be likened unto a foolifh man who built his houle upon the fand; and the rain defcended, and the floods came; and the winds blew, and beat upon that houle, and itfell, and great was the fall of it. SER-
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