From whence the huugring of the foul ariJeth. that righteous God, to receive the fentence of my eternal! doome from him, now how ihall I hand before this righteous God, certaineiy I mu(t have righteoufnefs, or I can't ttand be- fore him : That's the firft thing that raifes this Hunger and thirft. Secondly, The foul comes to be convinced of the infufficien- cy and imperfection of it's ovine righteoufnefs : Muff I ftand before this righteous God, and mutt I have a righteoufnefs to enable me to ftara, before him, then let me looke to my heart and wayes and life; what righteoufneife have I, it may be fome that have not lived fo wickedly as others have done; why if -I be to Rand before the righteous God, I hope I may, for I have not been fo as o =hers have been; fo wicked and ungodly, I have dealt righteoufly between man and man,my life bath been fair, I have been no whoremafter nor drunkard, nor no (wearer, nor blafphemer, and upon this they thinke they may ftand before this righteous God; O thefe people are infinitely miftaken and as yet the Spirit ofGod bath not been at work upon them, to thew how things are between God and their foules, certainly they know not God nor themfelves'that thinke fo but when the Lord workes gracioufly by his Spirit in the foule, it comes to looke into the life and heart, and there fees all its righteouf- neffe is but as a meuftruous cloath, it may be it is not railed: . higher then ameer morral! civili righteoufneffe, and then I have no true righteoufneffe at all; but fuppofe my heart were fanaified and my life fincere, holy, yet this ..righteoufneffe being imperfect,ir will never make me able to appeare before this righteous God, but that infinite burning juftice that I mutt fland before, it will come as a mighty flame and con''ume me for all this ; if I do fet this betweenme and that infinite righ- teous God it will be but as the putting of a peece of brown pa- per before a man to deliver him from a mighty flame of fire that is coming out againft him : -- That stbe fecund thing. Thirdly, The foule comes to fee that there is another rign- teoufnefs beyond it's own, that notwithftanding whatfoever righteoufnefs is in me I fee 'imperfect and unable to doe what my foule Raw bath need of ; although my righteoufnefs that
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