9O oil the Exc.ellency of tíZo Saul. fuch righteoufnefs as is attainable by the very light of na- ture, fuch a righteoufnefs as St. Paul (peaks on, in the 3. of the Philippians, that hee lived unblameably, how bee was a Pharifee, and bee accounted that righteoufnefs of his converfátion, to bee gain, yet afterwards, when Chrift, was revealed to him, bee accounted it but lofs; for hee faw, that it would endanger the.i6fs of his foul.eternally, the gelling upon that. Quell. You will fay, the foul that bath no other righteouf nefs but his own to tender up to God, is that foul loft ? why, what. other righteoufnefs is there. be[des that which is a means own? Alp,. To that I anfwer, There is a. fupernatural righte- oufnefs, the.righteoufnefs of a Mediatour, God-Man, that is come into, the world to Rand between loft fouls, and an infinite provoked God; and that is made over to the foul by Faith, and that foul that is faxed, by the.. hand of Faith, loth tender up, the righteoufnefs of that Mediatour, God - Man, for the fatisfacIion of infinite divine;Juftice, and the appealing of infinite wrath, and that. is the foul that is fag- ed : but that foul that is not acquainted with fuch a righte- oufnefs, that bath not fuch a righteoufnefs made over to it by Faith, the . righteoufnefs of the Son of God, the righte- oufnefs that, is by Faith inCbrift, that foul, if it fhould now depart.from the body, and . the Lord work. no otherwife upon it, than hee bath yet done, certainly hee would bee a. loft foul; and that is the fourth evidence of a foul that would,prefently bee loft, if it fhould now depart from the body: Fifthly, A f fth,evidence is this, That foul that God bath not.made (in fome meafure at leafl) to feel. the weight and burden of fini difcovered fin unto it as a greater bur- den than all burdens whatfoever, if fuch a foul fhould de- part, it would prove to bee loft, and that upon .this Rea- con. Becaufe without repentance a foul mull needs bee loft , Luk 13, 3: Except yee repert,yeefhall all lil¿,ew.ife.perifh, faith Chrift. Now
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