B6 Th.Conditlonary Part , J.JOW the people 'of God : which had not obtained rner~y, but no~ have obtained mercy.' Compare l{om. vi. 13 ~ ~n4 xii~ I, +· 1 Cor. vi. 20. This, the Prophet t~ught the Jewi!h church of old, ;Micah vj. 8. ' He bath fuewed thee, 0 m;m, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to qo jufily,- and ~o love mer~y, ~nd to walk hutpbly with thy God ?' ln the qth "~crfe, a mofi important quell:iop· is put, concerning the acceptance of a fin.. ner with God, how it may be obtain 'c, ' Wherewith ~all I come before the Lord ?' And fev~ral cofily ~xpedients for that purpofe are p,ropo$'d by the [inner, · even tp the ' giving of the fruit of h!s body for .the fin of pis foul,' ver. 6, 7.. B~lt the Prophet aniwer$ that quell:ion in a word, tacitly upbraiqing them with grofs ll:upidity, in their gropping for the wall jn broad day-light, even as ln the night ; ~ . He hath fbewed thee, 0 man, what is gooq, that is, what is goodly, valuable, and ~cceptable, in the £ght of God, for that purpofe, eve11 for a finner's obtaining pardon and ~cceptance with God ; namely, the Me.f!iah, Jef\ls Chrill: facrificed for finners. This was wh~·t God had 2ll along, by his prophets, and by the whok ceremo"! nial law, pointed out to them, and fet before them, as the good for that purpofe, that they might, by faith, ' look thereunto and be faved; Ifa. xlv. 22 . And in the 1lile of the holy Gho!l, Chrifi .crucified is dfewhere fpoken of under the fame notion. 2 Chro11. :xxx. 18. ' The good Lord parqon every one, that prepareth. his heart to feek God.' Orig. ' Jehovah 'the good ma~e atonement for,' &c. Pfalm lxxxv. 12. ,, The Lord ~all give that whic;h is good;' or ilialJ · give th~ good. Compare John iv. 10. ' If thou Jmew~fr the gift of God, and who it is.' Ifa . lv. ~· ~ Eat ye that whicf;l is good.' Compare John vi. 55 · ~ My fl:eth is me,at indeed.' John xxxiv. 4· ' Let us ~npw among ourfelves what is good. Ver. 5· ' For J6~ l1 ~ tl1 faid~, I am ~fgh.teous.~ Now? being thu~~ ·- 'l~c~pte\-4 .
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