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The
defareables:efs
of
the
oli,-ea
kir,grect
áftëì'.
ans,a great
dekleóf
difference
when thou lookeff
upon
that
blind mind
of-thine, that
dill
fpirit
of
thine,
than
dead heart
of thine, thole
many
atoll;
lufis
that
are
în thee,
and
uì
of
this
thy heart
is
dejected it
may
be;
but
though
the
difference be
great
in
rerpea
of lan6tidcation,
yet
in
refpeét of the
righte-
oufneffe
of
tuitiácatien
thou.arc
equal
wig
Abraher4,
1ff4c,
and
jMt-db,thou
art
equal with
any
of
the Prophets or
Apoi
les,
or
1\Rartyrs;
a
perfea
righteouíiaetie
that
is
made over
to
thee,
aild therefore it
is
a
molt defireable.objee
t,,
is
not that delire-
able
and worth
the
hungring and
thirtting after
for
one
that
hath been
a
bate
wicked forlorne wretch in
the
whole
courfe
of
his
life,
hath
been nothing but
a
very lump
of
filth and
abomi-
nation,
for
this
man or woman
at the
very inttant
of
the time
of
beleeving
to
come
tofiand
through
a
righteoufneffe
made
over
by
Chrift
as
perfect
as .rlyrahopee
ifaec,and
jacob,or
of
any
Saint
tharever
lived
in
the
world,
thy juftification
is
equal
to
theirs,
certainly if
youiknew
this,
if
you
did beleeve
it
one
wrulçl think
it
impoffible
but that
you
fhould
have
a
ftomack
to it,
You
(hould
have
hungring and rhirffing
delires after
filch
righteoufneffe
as
this is.
Ninthly,
This righteoufneffe
is
that
that
Jefus
Chria
at
the right
hand
of the
Father,
is
continually
prefenting before
the
Father, that he
might
be well pleafed with thole
to
whom
it
is
applyed,
it
is
a
fpecial work of
the
incercetlion
of
Jefus
Chrift
at
the right
hand
of the Father to be prefenting this
his
.ìhyeoucne«e
before the Father
for
fitch
and fuch foules
that
-'dó belong
unto
him;'
and
for
thee,
though
vild
here in;this
world,
and
full
of
fin,
yet
to
have
fuchh:
a
Mediator
at
the
right
hand of
God the
father continually
;
prefenting
a
perfect
righteoufneffe
,
to the
end
that
.
it
fhould
be
accepted
for
thee,
as
if
he
fhouid
fay,
Lord,though thefe
and
thefe
poor
creatures be
full
of
unrighte,pufneffe, .yet
behold the perfect
righteoufneffe of mine,
I
perfealy
obeyed,
therefore accept
of
that righteoufneffeof
mine,.is
not
this
an
obje't
defireable,
doth not
this call for ftrong
delires, hungring
and
thin,Ling,
and
'
-'ñre
4hey
not
ble{led
that
have fuch
a
righteoufneffe
as
tiffs
is
to be cloathed with,
L
1
a
Tenthly,