tves fatkfie the dem,tnds of'Jufiice {Gr p4fi offinceJ. 2. That· ycu foould perform per[61ZttUy, perfctlly and perpetually tbe wbole La:w fo'~ tbe time to come. Both thefe are to us impoffible, R.om 8. 3· But behold God,s gracious abatem:ent in both: He doth not fiand upon farif– faCtion, he is content to take ofthe Sure:y (and he of his own providing too) what he might have cxa3-ed from you, 2 Cor. 5'. 19· He declares him– felf to have received a ranfon.1, :fob 33. 2 4· 1 Tim. 2.. 6. and that he expects nothing but that you fhould accept hisSon, and he ft1all be righteoufnefs and redemption toyou, ,1ob. 1 . 12. I Cor. 1. 30• And for the ftJture obedience, here he. is content to yield to your weakners, and ornit the rigour. He c~oth not ftand up()n perfeCtion (as a condition ·<?f hfe, thoi1gh be flill infiHs upon it as dr~e) but 1s content to accept of fincerity, Gen. 17. r. Prov. I~. :o. Though you cannot pay the full debt, he will accept you according to tbat which you have, and take. willing fer doing, and the purpofe for the per– formance, 2 Cor. 8. 12. 2 Chron. ~. 8. Heb. 1 t. 17. And if you come in his Chrifi, and fee your hearts to p1eafe him, and make it the chief of your cares, he will approve and reward you, though the veffel be marrel inyour hands. : _Oh, c.onfider your Maker's con3elcention. Let me fay to }~U, as Naaman,s fervant to hun; My father, . i.t.tb_.e/Propbet bad bid tbee dofome great tbing., wouldft thou not bavcd~'ne it? bow mucb ratber wben be faith un– to thee, Wajb, and be clean? 2 King. ; . r3. If ~od h~d demanded fome terrible, fotne fevere and ngorous thing of you, toefcape e·:ernal damnation, would younot have done· it? Suppofe it had been to fpend all your days in forrow, -in fon1e howling wilder– nefs, or pine your felves with famine, or to off~r the fruit of your bodies for the fin of your fouls, ·wouldyou not ha¥e thankfullyaccepted eternal' re- . . demption,
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