/ The Life of Faith. wards our falvation as he hath done, Het,. 8, & 9. 4, 'rat it is his very office and undertaking, which there- fore he cannot pofïibly weed, Luke 19. io. & 2. 1 r. John 4 42.Aas5.31. &13 23. 5. That God the Father himfelf did give him tous, and app:,int him to this faring ofii ;c, John 3. 16, 18. Aús 5. 3 t: 9t t 3. 23. Yea God was in Cbr;jfreeonciling the worldunto him - felf, net imputing to them,thcir rrcfra[s, 2 Cor. 5 18, 19. And God wade him jiu (that is, a facrificefor fin) for us who knew no fin, that we might he made the righteoufnefs of God in him (that is, noight.loe the puhlick injfances of Gods merciful Juffice, as Chritl was ut his penal Juftice; and this by a rigbtcoufnefs given usby God himfelf, and purehafcd or merited for us by Chritl, z Car. 5.21. yea and be renewed in hohneis and righ- teoufnefs according to his Image. 6. That now it is become the very intereff of God, and of Jefus Chritl himfelf to juftitie us , as ever he would not lofe either the glory of his grace,¡ or the obedience and fufriing which he bathperformed, Ifa.53.19. Rom. 5.12,13,18,19, &c. Rom. 4: throughout. 7. Confider the nearnefs of the Perfon ofChritl, both to the Father and to us, Ebb. i,& 2, & 3. '8. Think of the parfeäion of his facrifice and merit, letout throughout the Epifile to the Hebrews. g. Think of the wordof Promife or Covenant, which he bath made, and fcaled and fworn, Heb. 6.17, t 8. 7uus 1. z. io. Think of the great foal of the Spirit, which is more than aPtomife, even an earneft, which is a certain degree of potfc(lion,and is an executive pardon (asafter (hall be declared) Korn. 8, 15, 16. Gal. 4.6. 11. Remember that Gods own JP(lice is nowengied for our Jutlitication, in there two refpcds conjunct : 1. Becaufe of the fulnefs of the merits and fatisfationofChrifl: I. And becaufe ofhis Veracity which muff fulfil his promife, and his governingor deflributive Juflice, which mutt judge men ac- cording tohis own Law of Grace, and mull give men that which hehimfelfbath made their right, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8. I John, 9,10,11,12. a, Lafily, Think of tht many millions now in Heaven, of
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