2-46 Frew whence the hungrrrg c f the feul ortfeth. I had with men, may make nie to be able to hand before men, f© that they are not able to plead any thing againfl me,but it's God that I have to do wi_h, ,nerefore there mull be another righ- teoufnefs, now this i:. reveal'd in the Gofpel,the ..Gofpel tells nie,that the Son of o J was made íïn,and is is through him t hat there is an attonement nude, and he is made unto beleevers, wiifdonie and righteouineis, fuieti;ica.ion and redemption, why now the foule fees the certain :y of this, and is inibled to believe it, whieb cannot be done without 0niighty worke of the holy Ghoft upon the ioule; we can all fay, we mull be faved by jefus C hrifl, becaufe we h :are it, but to beleeve the cer- tainty of fuch a righteounefs that is beyond our own to prefent before the Father, this the foule without the power of the ho- ly Ghofl, is never able to beleeve, now the holy Clhofl works it to beleeve the reallity of it, that it is fo, and not only fo, but the fulneffe of that righteoufnefs, fo that the foule fees it fug: cient to fatisfie God for whatfoever fin I have been guilty of, though my fins have been very great, yet here's righteoullief;e enough to fatisfie an.inhnite Jufttce. Fourthly, The foule likewife mull be inlightned in the way of theGofpels making over this righteoufnes to the creature, It's true, Jefus Chrill is come as the g ~eat mediator to w .rke righteoufneffe for finners; but now how shall this be made over to my foule, 'to be made mine, that it 1liould be as my right; - oufnefs, that I should thud cloathed with that righteoufnefs before the Father, therefore that's the lift thing that the Lord difcovers to the foule in the way of the 6oipel, that Chtill is tendered to every wretched (inner freely with all his righte- oufnefs, and that upon their beleeving, or their calling their foules upon this righteoufnefs, willing to venter their foules and eternal eflates upon it, and wholly calling their fouls here, that this (hall be made over to them, made as their own righ- teoufnefs before the Lord; when the foule comes to fee this, that this is the tenure of the Go:pel, that Chrill with his righ- teoufneffe is freely orfered, and it is not what the (inner oath been, either little or great,or what the condition of the linnet. bath
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