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on
the Excellency
of
tbe_
Sots:l.
And:
yet
one thing
about
this
further,
is,
That,you.mttf
come
to
a
conic
}ion, not
oríely
of
'your
lack
citate,,
but of
your inability
to
fave
your felves,
and the
inability that
there
is
in
all
creatures
in Heaven and Earth
to
fave them;
that
thy
fall:
from
Godis
fo;
:dreadful,
that
all,the
created
power
in 'Heaven and
cannot,,
help
thee,
yea, and
that
thou
thy.felf
now
art,unáble
to
help
thy;fel£
to fave
thy
foul; bee:cònvinc'd thórowly óf this
:
This
was;
the
way
that
Chrift
took
with
_the
young
man
,
hee
tells
him
of the
Law
firft, and
then afterwards
becaufe hee
Was
conceited
that
bee
hadfulfilled the
Law, and-done
it,
C
rift
puts
him
up-
on
a
duty
(that
s
:ightcbnvince
himto
the
contrary)
which
was
required
i
tbe.
fpiritual
iiae
,arcing
of,the
Law
that
for-
bids covetoufnefs,
aidrequires
that
wee .ihould bee willing
to
parr with all for
God,
when,
hee;call,sfor
it;
Go
and
fell
all
that
tho
i'baf
,gnd
follow nice
,and
take
up thy
croft awl
fgllow
m,'
eeY
faith
Chritl,;
I
but
the
young,
man
hee
hadsreat
pOffefjîonr;
but beçattfellee
was no
fwearer, nor
ftealer.,, nor
tnixrderer,
nor.lyar, 1eethought:bee
,had
fulfilled'
the
Law,
but Chrift
by
putting
shat
to him, did
as
,
much
as
if
hee
hould
fay, poor
young
man,
thou art deceived, thou
think-
eft that
thou
art
able
to
do
what God
requires
in
his Law,
6ut_didfl
.
thou but underltand
the
fpiritual
part.of
the
taw,
thou
wo'uldeff fee
that
thou
arc
fo
cat
by
it,
that all
that
thou
art
able
to-do
in
thy'
obedience to the Law,
cannot
bee
fuitîcient (through the.finfulnefs of
thy
heart
and nature)
but
thou
mutt
perish
if
thou
takelt
fuch:a
courfe
as
that
is,
to
think to bee
faved by
the.
Law.; certainly
this
it
is upon
which
thoufands of
fouls
do:perifh, ,they think
;indeed:.they
are
(inners, but they
hope
they
(]talll
do
better,
and
they
are
able, they
-think
(though
not
without
God,
.
God
mull
help
them) to do that
that
the
Word
of God requires
of
them,
whereby
they may come
to
bee faved
;
now certainly
thou
knoweft
not
thy
fallen
condition, and
how
far
off thou art
from
God,
and
what thy finful
elate
is
naturally,
that
haft
fuch
thoughts
as
thefe,
gut
fecondly,
If
thou wouldeft have
thy
foul
faved,
break
off