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145

Frew

whence

the hungring

c

f

the

put' arifeth.

T

had with

men,

may make

ni.e

to

be

able

to

Rand

before men,

í

o

that

they

are

not

able

to plead

any

thing

aZainfl

me,but it's God

that

I

have

to

do wi:h, herefore

there

mutt be another righ-

teoufnefs,

now this

is

re' eal'd

in

the

Gofpel,the

..Golpel

tells

nie,that

the

Son

of

col

was

made

lin,ind

it

is

through

him chat

there

is

an

attonement made,

and

he

is

made unto beleevers,

wiifdore

and righceouinefs,

finetiica_ion

and

redemption;

why

now the foule

fees.

the certainty

of

this,

and

is

imbied

to believe

it,

whiéh

cannot

be

done without

Lmighty

worke of

the

holy

Ghoft

upon

the

foule; we can

all fay,

we mutt be faved

by

f

efus

C

hrift,

becaufe we heare

it,

but

to beleeve

the cer-

tainty of

fuch a

righteouinefs that

is

beyond our

own

to

prefent

.

before the Father,

this

the

foule

without

the

power

of the

ho-

ly-GhoR,

is

never

able

to beleeve,

now

the holy Choi}

works

it

to

beleeve the reallity of

ir,

that

it

is fo, and

not

only

fo,

but

the

fulneffe

of

thatrighteoufnefs,

fo

that the

foule fees

it ilia:-

cient

to

fatisfie

God

for whatfoever

fin

I

have

been guilty

of,

though

my

fins

have

been

very

great,

yet here's

righteoufnefle

enough to

fatisfie

aninfinite

j

uflice.

Fourthly, The

foule likewife

muf}

be

inlightned

in

the

way

of

the Gofpels

making

-over

this righceoufneis

to the

crea:

u

e,

It's

true,

Jefus

Chrilt

is

come

as

the

great mediator

to

w

.rke.

righteoufne%

for

fanners;

but

now how

(hall this be made

over

to

my foule,

to

be made mine,

that it

lhould be

as

my righte-

oufnefs,

that I

should

Rand

cloathed with

that

righteoutnefs

before the Father, therefore

that's the

lift

thing

that the Lord

difcovers

to

the

fooule

in

the

way

of the

6ofpel,

that Chrilt

is

tendered

to

every

wretched

finer

freely with

all his

rig

hte-

oufnefs, and

that

upon

their

beleeving,

or

their

caging

their

foules upon

this righteoufhefs,

willing

to

venter their

follies

4nd

eternal

ef}ates_upon

ir,

and wholly

caging

their

fouls

here,

that

this (hall be made over

to them,

trade

as

their

own righ-

teoufnefs

before the Lórd;

when

the

foule comes

to

fee this,

that

this

is

the tenure of the

Go:pel, that

ChrifI

with his righ-

teoufneffe

is

freely

otfered,

and

it

is

not what

the

firmer bath

been,

either

little

or

great,or

what

the

condition of the

finner

bath