•Head t-V. 349 -.and the fubti!e tea[onin ·~s of men .in Jav.o.ur of their lulls, will dieo be for ever baffled by their o1.vn canfciences. None .!ha.ll ha.v.e the favour~ .{if I may ft.> fpe'\.k) of lying under th'! .Joft cover of delufion; bu.t they Gull atl be convitJd by their ' .ec,nfcienct:. · .Nill they, will t·he_y, they fh ~dl look on thi; . book, read, and be .conf(;unded, andj/a,.~dJP.eechlifs, know• .ing that nothing is charged upon '. the'TI by miil:ake; fince this is a book ..vhich was always io t}wi r own cdlody. Thus '!hall the Judge make every man fe~ himfdf in the gl?>fs of . his own .confcience, which will make q l1 ick wotk. . Thir~, The book of.the law !hall be opened. Thts book ~-is the !hn,:Lrd and, rule, by wh~ch is known .what is right, -and wh,at ls wrong; ~s alfo., . wh at fe ntence is to•be paif~d accor ,iiogf~, ~n rhefe \<(ho . are .under it-. As to the open• .'ing of this bo~k, in its {\at~tory :par~, which fue·.vs what is .fin, ar\d v~dnt is duty ; it . fa.lls in with the opening of the book of con_fcience. For bnfcieoce is fet, by the Sovereiga ··Law.giv-er, in every man's ·bre:l_ft, to be his private tea.cher• .to fhew him the law; and his pri vate pafl:or, to m;;ke appli– ca tion of the fame; and, at tha t day, it wi!i be perfe{.9:ly fit :for ·its oili ce ; .fo that the confcience, which -is mofl: Hupid. now, flulllheo read to the man, mofl acc.urate, but dread· Ju~ lecru,L~s, -on the law. Bqt what feems (rnai~ly at lea(l' ...pointed ~t, by the opening 9f this book; is the opeoing of , ..that pa rt or .it, which determines rhe reward of mens work~. Now: theJnr pro tl! if(;th life., ·upon perfea: obedience : but none ea!'! be found on the right-hand, or- on -the left, wh·• – will pretend to rh1•., when once the book of coofci_ence i.'$ opened: it th l e ,;t!Ot:th death upon difohedien::::es, and wilt tffetl,ua. l!y bring i-r upon all uC~d e r its dominion. And th i~ par t of the boo·k of th,e -law, decerniining the reward of mens work·s is o.pened, only to fhewwhat mull be the portioa of the ungodly., and that there they may read their f.eo.tence before it be pronounced I B.ut it ,is not opened for tha.:{-;,!1- .te.nce of the faints ; for no feotence abfolvincr a 'fi·mer could b . ever be dr:awn mn-oLit. Tbdaw pro·nifeth life, oot as it is a rule of actions, /b-ut as a co·;enant of works : And .therefore ionocc:nt m.1n could not lnve demand.ed .life upoa llis obedience , till the l:aw w1s reduced into ti-)e form of a ~ove? a n~, as wu fhewn hefore. But the faints having been, lR th1s hfe, brou~ht under a new covenaot, namely, the G 1 CO •
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