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.Ephefidnr,Chap.;.
V.
or judge
of
him,
he
knowes
all his fufficiency
is
of
God
and not
of
himfelfe, that
God works
all
his
works for
him and he
will accept
his
works: But efpecially
in
the
court
of
confcience
and divine
juftice, and
in
the matter
and
caufe
ofjuftification, wherein
no
man can
ftand
,
or
dare appeare
or
fhew his face
,
in regard
of
the
guilt
of
finne
;
here
a
Chriftian
is
moft bold,and dareappeare comming with Chrift
his
Ad-
vocate, Proi or or
Attourney,and
dare plead
his caufe and
hand
upon
interrogatories with God himfelfe,
and aske
God
himfelfe
(
humbly
and
with reverence)
what
he
bath to lay to
his
charge,
and
what
there
is
more that
he
will, or
his juftice can require for
fatisfaetion,
more
then
his
furety
bath done and
fatisfied
for him.
He dare not only
chal-
lenge all creatures
faying, who
shall
lay any thing
to the
charge
of
Gods
ele&
butto God himfelfe, he
can
make
his apology, as
2
Cor. 7.
2.
cor.+:1o.11.
For
having truly grieved for
his
limes,
becaufe he bath offended God,
and
farrowed according
to God,
and this griefe having
wrought
in
him,
tidy,
revenge,indignation, he may
now
fafely
and boldly
by
Chrift
his
Advocate
and
interceffor, make
his
apology,
and ftand upon
inter-
rogatories with
God, why God
Ihould
not
pardon him,and accept
him
for
his
child, and
receive him into favour, according
to
his covenant
and
pretmifes, his
juftice and faithfulneffebinding him
(as
bris
a
God)
thereunto.
t /An
I.
g:
Ifwe
acknowledgeourfznnes,he
is
faithfall
and
jufl
to
forgive
us our
finnes.
FP
i
We
muff
therefore think
on
this ineftimable benefit,that we
whofe
confciences did accule
us
and make
us
blanke , may
now
through
Chrift
freely with reverence, ftand upon interrogatory before
him.
2.
Commit thy
felfc
to Chrift,
let him
be
thy
guide
to
walk by
as
the
Wemult
Coal-
way, to
be counfelled
by him
as
the truth,
and quickned and ftrength-
uu
our
felves
ned
by
him
as
thy
life, and
never doubt but
he
will bring thee
fafely
to
thrift.
Y
Y
to God,
and
thou
fhalt
never mifcarry
, he will
bring thee to
his
reit
and
into the
land
of
Canaan
where
God
dwells,
and
prefent thee
be-
fore
Gods
face perfe
l
in
love..
Thou
limit
never mifcarry by
any
fines,
lufts, temptations,
croffes, miferies,
for
Chrift
bath led the
way
through
all there and made it
fafe,
only commit
thy
mind
and
heart
to
be led
and guided
by him , trufting
to
him
as
thy Prophet to
counfell
thee, and
call
no
man
Rabbi
but
him,thy
onely Prieft to
lead
thee to
God,
and King
to
defend thee,
and quicken
thee
, renouncing
thy
reafon,
wit
, lulls , learning and
all
creatures; truft
to Chrift
on-
ly
thy
fhepheard,
to bring
thee
out
of
Satans
bondage
and to
lead
thee through the darke
wilderneffe
of this
world;
foronly Chrift the
Son
of
God
who
came
from the
bofomeof
God,can bring
us
to God.
3;
This
doth
greatly controll that Popifh doubting, built
on
fuck fan
Wee have that
dy
foundations,
as
our not having
a
particular word: whereas
we have
thpis
',quail
a
general' with
a
commandement, which
is
as
much
as a
particular.
articular
word.
And
we
have
the
Sacraments particularly applying things to
us,
and
their
ground from
our want
of
qualification
is
weake:
for
wee are
not
bold
in
our felves,
for
our difpofition,
but
in
Chrift
Iefus ,
and
Gods
covenant ftricken in him
,
which he bath promifed to
performe: not
for