The Life of Faith. 307 they may pafs by the heap of errours after, if their own judgements prevail not againfl their unwillingacfs. Dire&. a. Vnderffand well what need you bave of pardon of fin, and Juffification, by reafax of your guilt, and of Gods Law and Suffice, and the everlaftingpuscifhment which is legally your due. t. It muff be a fenfible, awakening, pra&ical knowledge of our own great necetfity, which muff teach us to value Chrift as a Saviour, and to come to him in that empty, (rckand weary plight, as is neceffary in thole who will make ufe ofhim for their Cupp), and cure, Mattb. q. r z. & i r. 28, 2g. A fupertl alai fpeculative knowledge ofourfin and rnifery, will prepare us but for a fuperflcial opinionative faith in Chril}, as the remedy. But a true fcnfe of both, will teach us to think of him as a Saviour indeed. 2. Original fin, and aáual, the wickednefs bothofthe heart and life, even all our particular fins of omifiion and commit Pion, and all their circumflances and aggravations, are the fiat reafon ofour great neceflity ofpardon : An therefore it can- not but be aduty to lay them to heart as particularly as we can, to make that necofity, and Chrifis redemption the betttr undertiood, Alls 2.37. AIlS 21. 8, 9, &c. 3. The wrath of God, and the miferies of this life, and the everlatlingmiferies of the damned in Hell, being the due cf.- has or punifhmcnt of fin, are the fecond caufe of our nccctlicy of pardon : And therefore tbefe alfo mull be thought on feri- oufly, by him that will fcrioufly baieve in Chrift. 4. The Law of God which we have broken, maketh this punithment our due, Rom. ;. & 5. It 7. And the Jutlice of God is engaged to fccurc his own honour, in the honour of his Law and Government. Direr. 2. Vnderfand well what Cbriff is and loth, for the Juffification of a ¡inner, and bow (not one only) but all tine parts ofbis iffiest are exereifed hereunto. In the dignity of bis perfon, and perfeâ original bolinefs of his gatures,divine and humane, he isfitly qualified for his work nfour Jufiification and Salvation. His undertaking (which is but the DivineDecree) did from eternity lay the foundationof all, but did not atually jufiitic any. Qa 2 Has
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