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7he
excellency
of
the righteoxfnef
e
of
SanE
fication.
i
tthe
place
God
hath
fet
it
in
;
But
if
a
mans
body
be
diflem-
pered
through
fickn;,ife
and weaknelfe,
then
he
can
neither
work nor
relish
any
thing,
nor injoy
himfelf
in
any
thing
that
by
lath,
and
therefore
it
is that
man
delires health
above all
outward
b!e'.iings,
what
is
it
for
a
rich man
to
have
wealth,
and
a
great eflate,
and
not
to
have
health
;
what
is
it
to
a
man
to
have honours and
preferments, to
have
friends,
and all
the
de-
-lights
this world
can afford,
when
as
he
doth
not
enjoy himfelf
in thole things
:
Now
fin,
it
is
the diflemper of
the
foul,
that
which
puts the
foul
out
of
tall,
and takes
away
the
excellency
of
all
it
doth enjoy
:
Therefore
it
is fo
oft
in
Scripture
compared unto
things
that
are
the moll
loathfome
;
Nov
when grace comes
into the
h
tart, it
prevailes
againfl
all
the ill
humours of the foul,
and brings
health into
the fpirit,
it
makes
the
foule
heälthfull
and haile
in the
fervice of
God.
Secondly,This
righteoufneffe
is
a
fpark
of the Divi
nature,
that
exprellìon we
have in
z Pet.
t.
14.
whereby
ven
to
exceedtnggreat and
preciouspromifer,
that
by
thefe ytiu
might
6e partakers-
o
f
the
divine
nature
;
Grace
and
righteoufneffe.is
all one,
&
'tis
nothing
elfe
but
a
fparklingof
the
divine nature
that
is in
God.himfelf,
and
the
foul
that underflands
what
this
is,
how can
itbut
long after
ir,
it
feces
a
greater glory,
and
a
more worth
in
the
leafy fpark
of
this excellency, then
in all
the
glory
of the world reprefented
unto
it
hi
the
molt taking
at
}d'beautifull
fhew that
can
be, the
foul by
this
comes
to
live even
as
God
himfelfe
doth,
and
is
not
this
very
defirea-
ble.
Thirdly,
It
is
the
very Image of
God
in
the
foul,
and
art
Image reprefents
a
thing
in
the chief
excellency of
it
;
As
the
image or
pielure
of
a
man,
it
Both.
not
reprefent the
leggs
ant?
the feet
of
the
man, which
are the inferiour parts, but
his
coun-
tenance,
his
face,
the
image of
a
man
it
is
reprefented
by his
face which
is
the glory'of
the man, or the head
;
So
Gods
I-
mage
in
us
is this righteoufneffe, inherent
grace,
the creatures
have the footfieps of
God
upon them, in all the creatures
that
are
in the
world
we may
there
behold
fo
many
footfieps of
God