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From
whence
the
hsvgring
of
the
foul arifeth.
that
righteous
God, to
receive the fentence of
my
eternall
doome from him, now
how
doll
I
Rand
before this righteous
God,
certainly
I
muff
have
righteoufnefs, or
I
can't
Rand
be-
fore him
:
That's the
fiat
thing
that
raifes
thi;
Hanger
and
thirst.
Secondly, The
foul comes
to be
convinced of
the
infuflîcien-
cy and
imperfection
of it's
ovine
righteoufnefs
:
Muff
I 'land
before this righteous
God,
and
mutt
'I
have
a
righteoufnefs
to
enable me
to
flan.?
before him,
then let
me looke
to
my
heart
and
wayes
and
life;
what
righteoufnetfe
have
I, it
may
be
fume
that
have
not lived
fo
wickedly
as
others
have
done;
why
if
-I
be
to
Rand
before
the
righteous
God, I
hope
I
may, for
I
have
not
been
fo
as
o
=hers
have
been;
fo
wicked
and
ungodly,
I
have
dealt
righteoufly
between
man and man,my
life bath been fair,
I
have
been
no whoremafter nor
drunkard,
nor no fwearer, nor
blafphemer,
and upon
this
they
thinke
they
may Rand
before
this
righteous
God; O
thefe people
are infinitely miRaken and
as
yet the Spirit
of
God
bath
not been at work upon
them,
to
thew
how things
are
between
God
and
their
foules,
certainly
they
know
not
God
nor themfelves
that
thinke
fo
but
when
the
Lord
workes graciou
ly
by
his Spirit in
the
foule,
it
comes
to
looke
into the life
and
heart,
and
there
fees all
its righteouf-
neffe
is
but
as
a
menflruous cloath,
it
may
be it
is
not
raifed:
.
higher then
ameer
morrall
civil( righteoufiaeffe, and
then
I
have
no
true
righteoufneffe
at
all;
but
fuppofe my
heart were
fanaified'and
my life fincere, holy,
yet this righteoufneffe
being
imperfect,
it
willnever
make
me
able
to
appeare
before
this righteous
God, but
that
infinite burning
juflice
that
I
mull
Rand
before,
it
will
come
as a
mighty
flame
and
consume
me
for
all
this
;
if
I
do fet
this between,me and
that infinite
righ-
teous
God it
will
be
but as the
putting of
a
peece
of
brown
pa-
per
before
a
man
to
deliver
him
from
a
mighty
flame of fire-
that
is
coming
out
againft him
:
--
That
stbe
fecund
thing.
Thirdly, The
foule comes
to
fee
that
there
is
another
rign-
reoufnefs
beyond
it's
own, that notwithftanding
what-
foever
righteoufnefs
is
in
me
I
fee imperfe
l
andunable
to
doe what
uiy foule now bath
need of
;
although my
righteoufnefs
that
I
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