The defireaiknefe of the ÓJ4 Lhengred after. 155 worlds that they might be delivered from the anguifh and trouble of thofe finking defparing thoughts and temptations . that their fot,les are afi ìed withal! ; but there is nothing in the world can doe it but the fight and application of this righ- teoufneffe of Jelus Chril }, as tt hath been before defcribed, Therefore it's very defireable. Secondly, By this righteoufneffe the foul comes to fee a w ty for making up all the wrong that ever was done to God by his fine I have wronged God by my fin, and how this can be made up, it were iinpofftble for Angels and men to thinke of a way; but the revealing of this righteoufiieffe ofChrifl made over t o the foule by faith, flrews a way how all the wrong that ever niy fin hath done to Godmay be quite Made up,aiid is not this de- fireable, will not this draw the heart, thou that arc any way fenfible of the wrong that thy. fm hath done to God, wouldef`~ not thou give if thou hadfl: ten thoufands worlds to make it up againe : Here's a way that all may be made up'againe : O what a defireable objea is this righteoufneffe. Thirdly, By this righteoufneffe the lagb is fully fatis5ed,and all the claime of the law is anfwered, that the law bath nothing to charge now upon the foule, to lay any claime to the foule for any breach of it this is a defireable thing, there's no defire- ableneffe at a,,itiin being freed from the Law as a rule of life, thaw nö wade77freable to a gracious heart, 131eff ed are they that love thy lava (as the rule of life) rrothiog fhall offend them: They would choofe the law to themfelves, therefore that's de- fireable; but the claitrte that the law layes to the foul, and the charge that the law brings agairiff'the foul for the breach of it, the foule defires to be delivered from this, this is a' fore and dreadful! evillthat I (land before the law of Gici that bath in- finite juflice in ir, that !lath fuck and fuck a dreadfull 'charge to charge upon me, O that I could be difcharged from what ever the law bath to. charge,why,this r.'ighteoufhefs will do it,it will deliver the foul from what ever the law hash to charge ur- on it, therefore in the i o. Ro:4 It's faíd that Chri fl' the end of the lam for righteossfneffe to every one' that beleevèth,he is the end of the law, it bath it's perfeaion in him, thou niayel} to -he the demands
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