62 DireEttons for getting and keeping 2. God bath not redeemed -us by his Son to be Lawlefs : To be without Law is to be .without Go- vernment. We are without the, Law (that is of Works, or Cif Mores) but not without L v ; Jefus 'Chrifi is our Ruler, and he bath made us a Law of 'Grace ," an eafie yoak, and commands that are not grievous. Thfs Law bath Precepts, Promifes and Threats : it mail needs be either obeyed or difobey- ed 3 and fo thepenalty mull be due or not due ; and the rewarddu.or _not due. He that performs the condition_ and fo to whom the reward is tlue,and not thepenalty, is Righteous in the fenfe ofthis Law As when we are accufed to be finners againfl the Law of Works,and fotodeferve the penalty ofthat Law;we muff confef5 all , and plead the Righteoufnefs of Chriffs fatisfa@ion,for our juftification : fo when we areaccufed to be final. unbelievers or impenirent,and fonot to have performed the conditions of the new Covenant,we mull be J uftifted byour own Faith and Repentance,the performance ofthat condition ; and muff plead, Not guilty : And fo far our own A s are our Evangelical Righteoufnefs, and that of fuch re cefiìty, that without it no man can have part in Chrifls Righteoufnefs, nor be faved. I would defire any man elfc to tell me, what elfe he will plead at judgement, when the Acculer chargeth him (or ifhe do fo charge' him) with final unbelief: Will he confefs rr,and f?y,Chralt bath 'Believedand Repented for me?. that is as much as to fay,cbYift was a Reliever for in- fidels, that he ,r;ÿhtfave Infidels. All fit! re. I f he will not fay thus ( aid lying will do no good)ethen mull he plead his own Believing and Repenting a.s. his Rightcoufnefs in o'ppofition to that Accumation And if
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