CAP . l9. Reimlat ionep»,Ápocalypfin. 7.9 It is not this Church for whom this fine'filken drefling is prepared but it is that other of the Iewes, which lay before, all forlorn, filthy, naked not having a ragge to wrappe her in, who bath thefc fine lin- nen garments given her, wherewith the maycover her.former defor- sned nakednes. Now this fine /inner; it Leftts Chrift himfelfe,who is made our,to be oter righteoufnes cr our redemption by imputation; which garment the Iewes,wanted,whilefi that theydefpifng the Soli of' God, and his righéeouffes, fought to efiablifh their owne righ teottlnes, but at lafl when they thalbe iiagräfred into himby fai.th,they thall renounce their former hópe, and shall embrace this Caving righ- teoufnes, being clothed once with this one glóriotis'garment. That befhould be-Grayedwith fine linnen He faithhet, Fine Lingen arcs given her, But it wasgrantedher thatfhefkOuld becloathed with fine Lrnnen, &c. The difference is this, that by thofe Words it is fignifiea, thatfine linnen is given her of GodMimed iatiy, thele lignifie that it is given mediatly, that is, by manes offaith. Thisfine Ltnnln is both Pure andbright; Pure in regard of Iuffification, bccaufe it dothpre- lent us unblameable, and unreproveable before God, free from any ¡pots orblot. 73right in rcfpei ofthe glory which it bringeth to a man bothbefore God, whomakes us heirs ofhis eternall Kingdo ofthis purity ofhis Sonnes, which is i- a.?e ours asalfo before men; to whotn it fheweth forth our adoption. k t[?ofe moil goodly and glittering frustes, thereof, which.itdoth make tr, offer rhenslelves readily unto the view ofmen, by meanes'of the .Holy Ghoft working together withus, and within us. For thefinelinnen is therighteouInes, or iuftificattons of the Saints. See how di(iinftly;'end exquifirely the Holy Ghoff .fpcaketh in this place ; for he faith not, that theJustifications of the Saints: are fine linnen, but contrarily, thatfineLinnen, are the iutiifications; andthat not ofthe wicked, as a man is, when he is firft converted to God but ofthe faints, that is, all iu(üfications, even of thofe in whom Piety loth molt ofall thine forth, doth not flow from a mans fclfe and from- inherent matters ofhis own, but fiicketh in the outward garment that commeth unto h+m fromwith out,namely in Child and his righ- teouf:es, whom we put on us by faith alone. It is a moii plaine and unanfwerable place of Scripture, to confirme the Doctrine of iufiifi- cation by faithonly ;which I would have you (oye Popiflh People) all the fort of you to confider of Diligently, that fo you might at laft renounce your Blafphemous Prideofheart, and might fetch true falvation from thence, where it can onely be obtained what, will ve thrufi upon God the meritts of the faints, and think to Roppe his Hhhhh z m0,01t'
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