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The
excellency
of
the
righte9rfneffe
of
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glory
of the eternall
God
;
There
is
not
only
God alining up-
on
the
foul,
but
God
fhining
in
the
foul
that holds
forth
the
glory
of
God
to
the world:And herein
is
a
great
niyflery
of
the
excellency this righteoufneffe,
that
it
doth not
only
!lain
f
on}
God
upon
the
foul,
but
there
is a
fhining in
the
foul,
that
holds forth
the
fhine
óf the righteouineßè
upon
this
foule
to
all
the world.
Sixthly,
By
this righteoufneffe the glory
of
God
is
maintai-
ned in.the world.
This
is
that
which
holds up
Gods hotóur
in
the world,
what glory
íhould God
have in
the world
:
If
all
were
as
unrighteous
as
fome
are,
you
think that the
Saints
they
are little worth
:
Let
me
tell
you
iris
for
their,
fakes
that the
world
now
hands,
had
God
no
more honour
from fome
then
he
hath from
the moil of
you, what would
beconìe
of
you
?
'Tis
not
for your
fakes
the
woi
ld
is
continued, the world
is
not
worthy
of
thefe excellent ones, but
God
Both
continue
thefe
that
he
might
have glory
from
them,
faith
God,
I
have
made
a
world,
and
I
have
placed,
and
filled it
with
variety of
crea-
tures, but of
all
the
works
of
my
hands,
I
have
none
that
loth
give me
that
glory that my
Saints
doe, God
puts
fuch
a
prin-
ciple into
force
that they give
him
the glory
of
their
being,.
Now
is
not
this
a
moll excellent thing, and
moli
defireable,
that the creature
fhould
be
able
to
live
up
to
the
fulfilling
of
the
end
which
it
was
created
for..
Seventhly
,
By
this righteoufneffe
all
naturali
and
civili
righteoufneffe
is
raifed higher and
to
a
more glorious
con-
dition then
poffibly
it
couldbe
before,
there
is
no
anion
that
a
man can
doe that
bath
any
worth
in
it
any
further then
this Righteoufnefl'e
is
in
it
men
in
their
natúrall
eiiate they
worke from
a
naturali
principle;
but when grace comes
into the
heart,
this
inherent
righteoufneffe
;
The. foule works' in
natu-
rail
ac`iions,
from inward principles, and makes
thofe riólite-
Àus
aelions,
when
a
gracious
heart
follows his
calling, and
the
things
ofthe
world,
it
is
in
a
fpirituall
way,
carnuji
hearts'are
carnali
in
fpirituall things,
and
gracious,
hearts are fpiritúall in
naturals
things.
Eightly, Upon
the
receiving of
this
righteoufneffe,
every
alion.