Times of righteoufneje proanifed to the Church. b the plots and defines and wayes of the wìfdome of the flelh fhall be manifefled, and this will be a bief ed time : O when will that time corne fay the Saints that this will be, that there fhall be this righteoufneife,. And the rather I took it robe the meaning here, becaufe I finde fo many promises in the Scripture of an eftate of the Church that (hall be wherein righteoufneffe (hall prevaile, as in the '2 Pet: 3. t 3. new heavens, and new earth wherein dwels righteoufneffe ; now -that it's meant of a flare of the Church, it's plaine by comparing it with the 65 Ifa: 17. In the z t. of Ifa: 4. There's a promife that's futable to this in the connexi- on of it with that that went before: Bleffed are the mee' e, and then bleff ed are thole that hunger aid th. Jl after righteoufneffe : Mark now, But with righteoufnete fhall he judge the pone, and reprove with equity for the meekofthe-earth, and then v: 5..And righteoufneffe be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulneffe the girdle of his reines: This is the promife ofChrift, and many fudh promifes in/fie for there's noProf ;het more full of the prophe- tic of the flare of the Church what yet -it (hall be as dfaiah in the 32. Chap: 16, 17. Then judgement {hall dwell in thewil- derneffe, and righterufnefe remaine in the franefsdl field, and the' worke of righhteoufneff e fhall be peace, and the tiffe 1 of righteouf- neffe c uzetnefs and affurance for ever : when was this ever yet fulfill d, there is fuck a time that the. Saints doe long for, and in the 3 3 of Ifa: 5.71e Lord is ewalted for he dwelleth on high, be bath filled Zion with iudgetnentand rigbteoaifrefv There is a time of filling Zon with judgement and righreoufm {fe,and in the 6o of l fa :you' have rmn,y exprerfi,nq one of which we'fpake to the laft time ; .l w'll alf mage thine ffìcers peace, and thine exallors righteotfrefs, and it follows, vo'ence (hall no note be beard in thy Land, waling nór deffrui :on w'thin thy borders, but thou (halt call 'thy wall; fa'lvation,.and thy gates praife, when, God (hall make their eaacior, robe righteoufnefs ro thetn,and in the 2 t . V: 7 by people afro (hall 'he dit ri ch: eons, they Mall in- herit the Landfor ever.: hire iq tharintráble to the former pro- ' mile, Ble/fed are the meek fir they /hdl? %nherit the earth. 7rhy eeap1e fhall'beall righteous, they fhall inherit the 'land far'everithe km* 239+ 4
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