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The
ezcAenay
of
rho righteokfneffemf
Sanaifrcation,
life
of
God
Intimating that
when
the
foul comes
to
have this
righteoufneffe
it
comes
to
live
the life that God doth
himfelf;
how is
that,
the
fame
life:
that
is
in
the nature
of God
;
The
foul
acting
as
God
acts, comes
to
live
the
life
of God
;
as;
when
a
creature
shall act
as
God
a&s, and make
the
fame
end
that Godmakes,and
works
towards
this end
as
God
workes,
this
is
the life of
God,
for
Gods
life
it
coinifts
in
this, in
wil-
ling
himfelf the
highea good,
and
aging
as
unto
an
ultimate
end,
and ordering
all his undertakings
to
fuire
with
his
end,
this is the excellency of
God,
and
a
Saint
comes to live
the
life
of
God,
he propounds
God
to
be
the
chiefefi good,
the glory
of
God
the
ultimate
end
of
all his
a&ions, and
drives
all his
defignes
to
this end
;
And herein
confias
the
excellency
of
this
life
of
fanetification, and thus
a
Saint
Both
in
his
meaitire,
though he be
notable
to
reach up
to
the top
and
height of
this
glory, yet every
Saint
in his
meafùre
doth
attain
this end
;
how
defireable then
is
this righteotrfiiefle;
that
makes
the
foul
to
live
that
life
here,
which
it
muff
live,
and
(hall to
all
eter-
nity.
Fifthly,
It
is
the
very glory
of
God in
the
foul
of
man
;
the
foul
dorh not
only
come
to
live the
life
of
God,
but
it
comes
to
be the
very
glory
of
God
:
Rom. 3.
z
3.
All
have
finned and
come
fhort of
the
of
God,or
as
it
is
in
the
Original,
'deprz°v'd
of
the
glory
of
God,
we are
now-depriv'd of the
righteou:taefs
Adam
was
fira
made
in
;
Adam
he
was
flared
in
a
glorious
be-
ing
in
Paradife, but he
loft
that righteoufneffe; and in
that
condition he
was
the
glory
ofGòd,being
the excellentefi
crea-
ture thatGod
made,but
he finning,did deface
that
excellency:
Now
when this
is
renewed iwihe
foûle
Godsgloryis
come
in-
to
the
foul,
men defire
glory in
idle.
world
;
whit
are the
thoughts and the defires of
all
.men
-almofi _after,
but
thofe
things
that
may
advance themfelves and
their
own honour
;
how defiròus
then
is
Gods
glory, or
ought it to
be-unto us,this
íhines
in
the
foules
of
the
Saints
;
and
to
have a
principle that
wethall:hold
forth this
glory
according
to
the
meafure
of
grace
received,
this
is
very excellent
;
that
a
poor wretch
hould
come
tnfuch'a
bight
of
excellency
to
hold forth
the
glory