hé ë:xcelenty of the rtghteaurr,,effè of Sattaification. holineffe and righteoufneffe; all the dayes of our lives, Lupe r 74. Chrift came :rto the worl i that he m $ht have a people to ferve him, that he might 're.Ieeme a ch_ fen Generation, who are they ? Certainly they mutt be fome.rare people that mull,have fuch an one to come to redeem them : Man had loft all his ho- linerfe and righteoufneffe that he had at the firft,and lay under' filth and mifery, but fuch was Gods love to righteoufneffe, that he faith to Chrift; My Son, thou mutt goe into the world to reflore:: righteoufnefs again; fuch is my love to righreouf- neife that thou muti goes though thou, art the onely beloved ofmy foule, yet goe thou mull ; Well, faith Chrift, Father I am willing to góe, and though it colt me my life to procure righteoufneffe, and righteous ones to be fubjels for thy mercy to Triumph in,'I am willing to dye, to procure it, how excellent then is the righteoufnes which is that in which Chrill:. attains his end in dying. Fourteenthly, This is the only thing next to the righteouf- nefs of Chrift that it will be of worth at death and judgement, next (I fay) unto the righteoufnefs of Jefus Chrilt,when all the world (hall faile, their hearts (hall quake within them,, and all their civili righteoufnefs, and all their forrfiallity, and their foolish pomp in the world, that which they have made heir hope, the rock of their confidence and their flay, (hall all fink under them, this is that which I fay next to the righteoufneffe of Chrift will hold up the head above water,this ¡hall comfort thee, and then it will be de1ireable; O that we had óyle in our Lamps, and grace in our hearts; when the foolish Virgins faw the glory the wife Virgins were poffeft of, they then law their folly in theirnegle (,and they cryed then,ôthat we had grace, &that we had oylein our Lamps,Certainly that which will.be of fuch excellency then it is no Idle worth new. Fifteenthly, This is an imrnortall feed, when once the foul is infealed in righteoufnefs, 'tis ever righteous, the leáft feedse of it, it (hall endure to eternity, and the laflingnefs, of a thing (we fay) puts a price upon it : If thou haft this, thou haft that in thee that all the Devils in hell shall not overcome,they'may of ault,'trouble and difquiet thy, peace, but they (hall, never P p a under-
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