3 48 Directions forgetting and keeping you not know that he bath made fatisfaaion for all , and «ill pardon all, and bath given out the pardon of all in his Covenant and that to all men, on Condition they will Accept Chrift to pardon, and heal them inhis own way ? Hath God made it his great defign in the work of mans Redemption to make his Love and Mercy as Honourable and wonderfull, ashe did his Power in the workofCrea- tion ? and will you after all this oppofe the greatnefs of your fins against thegreatnefs of this Mercy and Sarisfa&ion ? Why, youmay as well think your felf to be filch a one that God couldnot or did not Make you, as to think your fins fo great that Chrift could not or did not fatisfie for them, or will not pardon them, ifyou Repent and Believe inhim. 3. And for Worthinefs, I pray you obfe.rve : There is a two- fold Worthinefs and Righteoufnefs. There is a Le- gal Worthinefs and Righteoufnefs, which conitieth in a perfe& obedience, which is the performance of the Conditions of the Law of Pure Nature and Works. This no man bath but Chrift : and if you look after this Righteoufnefsor Worthinefs in your felf, then do youdepart fromChrift, and make him to have died and fatisfied in vain ; You are a Jew and not a Christian, and are one of ti fe that Paul fo niuch difputeth againft, that would be Jutlified by the Law. Nay, you must not fo much as once ima- gine that ail your own Works can be anypart of this Legal Righteoufnefs or Worthinefs to you. finely Chrifts Satisfa&ion and Merit is inhadof this our Legal Right oufnefs and Worthinefs. God never gave Ctri;t and Mercy to anjr' but the unworthy in this fenfe ; Ifyou know not your Pelf to be unwor- thy
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