2 i6 Scrm.Ia. AMAMAAAAAAAAAWAttAtAAAM Wherein lies that exad Righteouf- nefs, which is required between man and man. Mat.7.12. Therefore all things whatfoever ,fou mould that men Aould dountoyou doye erenfo to them, for this et the Lam and the ¡Prophets. Hefc words being brought in by way of Inference from fomeching faidbefore, we mull look back a lit- tle to find out the relation of them to the former verfes. At the feventhver. Chrif} commands to ask of God thole things which we want, to incourage us to ask, he promifes we Ihail receive, co induce us to believe this promife, he puts a temporal cafe; Our earthly Fathers which are evil, give us good things when we ask them, howmuch more eafily may we believe this of a good God, of infinite goodnefs. Now as we delire God fhould giveus chafe things we ask,fo we fhould do to orhers,and nor only fo, but univerfally in all other things, what we would that men fhould do to are, that wefhould do toethers. That men ¡hould dounto you ; though the perfons be expref}, yet we may take it imperfonally, by an ufual Hebrrnfm, as if it had been faid, whatever you would fhould be done unto you, leaving the perfon to befup- plied in the large(} fenfe ; thus, whatever you would fhould be done unto you by God or men. This ù the Law awl the Prophets, i. e. This is the fum of the Old Tetiamcnt, fo far as concerns our duty to our neighbour. The
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