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3.1
.3
On
the Excellency of the Soul.
my
prayers, my cries,
this
will
not do.
-
-- Ir
is
true,
there
is
not
enough
inmee,
but
will
not
Gods
mercy
-eke
it
out
?
-
--
No, it
is
neither
what
thou
doefl,
or
canfi
do, or canft
be
inabled to
do,
and
put
Gods
mercy meerly
without
any
more,
that
doth
it,
but
it
is
a fatisfaetion
to
jufiice,
a
price
paid for the foul; no foul
is
ever faved,
but
it
is
faved
in
the
way of
a
price, that
is
paid
for
;
and
this
thou mutt
ac-
quaint thy
foul
with, whichthoufands of
people
are igno-
rant
of; yet
they
hope
to
bee-
faved, but
how
?
they
will
pray
to
God
that
they
may
bee
faved, and
that'
God
would
have mercy
upon them; and
is
here
all-?
certainly`
this
is
not the
way
of
the
Gofpel; but
the
way
of the Gofpel
it
is
that
that
reveals unto the
foul
the
price
that
is
paid
for
a
.
foul,
even the blood of
Çhrifç
That
in Chrifi the great
Me-
diatour
of
the
fecond
Covenant , there
is a
perfe& fatisfa-
slion
to
Gods Infinite Juflice;
this
indeed
is
a
great
part
of
the Myftery
of the Gofpel;
this is
the
faving truth
of
the Gofpel, and thou mutt acquaint thy
foul
with
this truth
if
thou bee faved.
-
--
And when
thou
hearefi of
this
truth,
perhaps
thou
canft not
underhand
it
for the
prefent,
Oh
then thou
bada
need
go
to God
in fecret, and
bee
crying
to
him
that
hee
would reveal
this
truth unto
thee.
-
--
But
you will fay,it
is
not
our crying;
---
It
is
true,
it
is
not meet-
ly
our
crying, but there
is,fomething
of God
-
further
:
But
God
haih
made:many
gracious prornifes
of anfwering
our
cries,.
and
now
that
fo_hee
may make good
his
promifes,
bee
willfurther
reveal
this Myfiery
of
the
Gofpel
to
thee,
that
there
is a
neceilìty
of
fatisfa&ion
to
divine Juflice
for
thy
fin
that
bath
brought thy
foul
into
a
loft
condition.
Secondly, And further,.
A
neceflïty
of
a
perfe&
Righte-
oufnefs;
wee will
not
fpeak
of
any
thing
controverfal
about
its
which way
it
comes
to
bee
applied; but
this all
will
grant, that
there
is a
perfei
Righteoufnefs
that
wee
have
need
of;
the
way of
falvation
is a
perfe&
Righteoufnefs,
thou
mutt
have
a
furety
that
mufi have
a
perfect
.Righte-
ianefs
for
thee.
Thirdly, And
then
the
way
of
falvation
is
this,
it
reveals
an