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On
the Excellency
of
tilt
Son1.
filch
righteoufnefs
as
is
attainable
by
the very light
of
na-
ture,
fuch
a righteoufnefs
as
St.
Paul
fpeaks on,
in the
3.
of
the
Philippians,
that
hee
lived unblameably,
how
hee
was
a
Pharifee,
and hee
accounted
that
righteoufnefs
of
his
converfätion, to bee
gain,
yet
afterwards, when
Chrifi, was
revealed to
him, bee
accounted
it
but
tofs; for
hee
faw,
that
it
would endanger
the.lofs of
his
foul
eternally,
the
telling upon
that..
Quell.
You
will
fay,
the
foul that bath
no
other
righteouf-
nefs
bat his
ours to
tender
up
to
God,
is
that
foul
loft
?
why,
what
of
het
ighteoufnefs
is
there
be ides.
that
which is
a
mans
own:
.flrfw. To that
I
anfwer,
There
is afupernatural
righte-
oufnefs,
the
righteoufnefs of
a
Mediatour, God-Man,
that
is
come into
the world to
Rand
between
loll
fouls, and
an
infinite
provoked
God; and
that
is
made over to the
foul
by
Faith;
and
that
foul
that
is
Paved, by
the
hand of
Faith,
doth
tender
up,
the
righteoufnefs of
that
Mediatour,
God
-
Man,
for the
fatisfaCtion
of infinite divine
Juf{ice, and
the
appealing of
infinite wrath, and
that
is
the
foul
that
is
fav-
ed
:
but
that
foul
that
is
not acquainted
with
fuch
a
righte-
oufnefs,
that
bath not
fuch
a
righteoufnefs
made over
to
it
by
Faith, the
righteoufnefs
of
the Son
of
God,
the
righte-
oufnefs
that
is
by
Faith
inChrill;
th!at;foul,if
it
fbould
now
depart,frotn
the
body, and
the
Lord
work,
no
otherwife
upon
it, than
bee bath
yet done,
certainly
hee would
bee
a.
loll
foul;
and that
is
the
fourth
evidence
of
a
foul
that
would
prefentl.y bee
loft, if it
lhould
now
depart
from
the
body.
Fifthly,
A fifth,evidence
is
this,
That
foul that
Coi
bath
not made
(in
fotne
meafure
at lealt
")
to
feel
the
weight
and
burden
of fin,
difcovered
fin
unto
it
as
a
greater
bur-
den
than
all
burdens
whatfoever,
if
fuch a foul fhould
de-
part,
it
would prove to
bee
loft, and that
upon
this Rea-
fon.
Becaufe without ;repentance
a
foul
mull
need;
bee
loll
,
I
-ut,
13.3. Except
yet
repent,
yee
lima
all
likeìv
fe.perifb, faith
Chrift.
Now