B56 The defireablercefj"e of the Objea .hungred,íafter; demands of the law over to thy furety, and God will never come upon the p;in iple in this cate but upon the furety, by having this righteoufneffe thine, thou comer here to be able to give the Law .what .it will claime,and todifcharge it of what - ever-it path to charge upon thee. Fourthly, By this riguteoufi eae the hazard of mifcarrying to all eternity is quite over ; when the foule cones to appre- hend this righteou.fnefs, itmay fee in the bowels of it (as it were) an absolute fafety, and bletfed fecuriry may this but be made -over to my foule, though it's true, that yet there will re- main much unrighteouineffe in me,yet I know that that un;igh- teoufneffe that will remaine in me (hall never hazard the eter- nall mifcarrying of my foule, but that all the hazard óf that is quite over ; Is not this detireable? what would, any, troubled foule give to, know the hazard of eternall mi carry ing over that doth but underhand what eternity meanes, and apprehends any hazard of mifcarrying in ir, there's nothing can fatishethe foule but this; if fobe that I think to fatistie my foule in the matter of my eternallehate, and in the deliverance from the hazard of mifcarrying, by what I doe, to think Ile mend my life and doe better (though every one (hould dne fo) yet hill the feares will returne upon the foule againe, there will bean uncertainty whether I (hall mifcarry for ever or no ? it may be I (hall, it may be I (hall not, I hope God will accept of me, but whether he will or no I cannot tell, but now when the foul_ comes to underhand fuch an infinite and a glorious righteouf- neffe to be made over to it in.the way of the Gofpel,furely now the foule is able to blefie ir felfe in Jefus Chrih, and to fay, My foule returne unto thy reft for the Lord bath dealt bountifully with thee : Now though thou beef+ unrighteous in thy felfe,yer there is that righteoufnelfe as Both free thee from any fuch .danger;ofmifcarrying, but thou art certainly fafe,this will cer- tainly bring thee to eternall life, For there is no condemnation to them that are in Chrift7efru : It's itnpoffible for a foul, that -God the Father (hall looke upon in the righteoufneffe Of his Son, a foule fo righteous as a beleever is through the. ri hteoul nefre of Chri(r, to mifcarry to eternity, that even God iiiould come
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