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the excellency
of Chriff.
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The
anfwer
that
here
the Apoflle fpeaks
of
,
it
is
an
an-
fwer unto all c'etnands
that
Gods
Juflice,
that the Law,that
the
Devils
can make ,
for any
puniíhment that
a
finner
bath deferved
If
.
Gods Juflice fhould
fay
to
a
finner,
Thou hail
finned,
and therefore thou Inuit
dye
,
thou
mult
bee
punifhed
,
thou
mull
fatisfie
Juftice.
If
the
Devil
fhould
cottie
and
demand
that
the Threats
of God fhould
bee fulfilled
becaufe
here
is
a
finner.
If
thine
own
confcience
fhould in
the
Name of God
demand that
thou
fhouldefl
anfwer
for thy
fin.
A
good confcience
by
the
Refurreetio.l
of
_jelms
Chrìfi,
is
able
to make
anfwer
to
all thefe demands
:
A
good
confcience ,
that
is , one
that
bath
a
good
confcience
can make
anfwer
through
Chrifls:
Refurre&ion, and
fay,
Why
are
thefe
things
demanded
of mee
?
Chrill
bath
fa-
tisfied
for
all , bee
hash
latisfied for my
fn,
and paid
my
debt
,
and
is
rifen again. Hath
not God the Father
acquitted
him in raifing
him
from
the
dead
,
and
therefore in
him
all
is
fartsfied
, and this
is
the
anfwer
I
make
to
all
the
Bills-that
are
put
in
againft
mee.
If
there
bee
Bills
put
in
againfl
mni
in
any
Court,
they
.
come and make anfwer
;
What
ever
Bill
can
bee put
in
aJ
gainíl
a
beleever,
if the
Law of
God
,
or
any
Temptation
Mould
put
in,
any Bill
,.
faith
a
beleever
,
here is-my an-
fwer,
That
all
is
fatisfied
in
atilt
:
Now
this
is
by
the Re_
furre
&ion
of
Jefus Chrift;
if
Chrifl had dyed,
yet
if
bee
had
not
rifen
again,
`thou
couldefl
not
have
made
anfwer,
That
-
all
is
done,
all might have
beendoing,but thou couldefl
not
have made
anfwer
that
all
is
done; but
by
the
Refurreaion
of
JefusChrifl,thou
cant+
make anfwer to
any
demand.
And obfervt,
That this
is
the
anfwer of
a good
con=
fcience.
Men
and
women
that
talk
fo
much
of faith;
and
yet
have evil
confciences
,
they cannot
make this anfwer
by
the
Refurreflion
of Chrift
:
Thole
that dell
you
wee
are
to beleeve
, and
God
looks
at
nothing
elfe but
be
leeving
:
It
is
true
,
if
they
underfland
it
aright , in
the
point
of
Juflification, that
is
the.thing
that
is
for
the
jufti
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Eying,