hap. 7. An Expofiti.n upon the Book of j OB. Verf. 20. ISÌc your of God in the pardon of fin. What Pererthrearncd Simon: /Plague; may be affirmed of them. Their wryly weft periJh wttb them, That is, their Prayers and Tears, their Sorrows and their Hutzablings, their alms and th' it good Deeds, forafmuch as they have thought, that this gift of pardon may be obtained by fuch money. They have neither parc nor lot in that mercy, for their hearts are not right in the fight of God. Agood worktrufted to, to at mortal as a fin unrepentsd of. Again, There is fomewhat cobe done, when we have florid but nothing to be paid. That's Gofpel-language, when a man bath finned, to fay, what(hall I do ? Thofe converts in the Attr who enquired, Who ¡hall we do ? were told by the Apoliles of Tome what to be done , Repent and be baptized, believe and thou Jhalt be javed. There are wayes wherein Salvation is tendered, not works for which it is beftowed. It isa dangerous error,fo to lift up the grace of God, as CO deny the induftry of man through , grace,and becaufe he can do nothing by way of fatisfac ion,thar, therefore he mutt do nothing.The Apofttes gave CGofpel-counfel, yet when men asked them,vvbat ¡hall we do to beJawed ? TheyPaid not, ye muff donothing, (mod will fave you by his free-grace : no they called them to repent and believe, &c. Take heed when ye have finned, to fay we need not mourn for fin, we need'not be humbled,we need not repcnt,for,Lord, what can we do unto thee, O thou Saviour of men ? There are the inferences of our own (pirics,not of the Spirit of Chrift. They who lift up the grace of Chrift, to leffen the neeetiity of gracious a&ings in themfevls , thew they knownot the meaningof his grace,and have not indeed talk l huw gracious the Lord is. To denyour own righteoufnefs, and to be very active in the wayesof righteuofnefsis the due Gef- pet- temper. The Apoflle Phil. 3. 8. connts all thing: but 14 and dung; all duties and humblings , all legal righteoufnefs and o- bedience, not that herefufed righteoufnefs, or negleCed duties, but he would not mingle them with Chrift, or bring them in as contributions to the purchafe of blefednefs. Our righteoufnefs and holyduties are dungand drofs in juftification ; but they are gold andprecious things in fanCifcation : without thefe we can- not walk worthy of our holy calling, or,as it becomes the Gofpel of Chrift. So much for tilde words, What ¡hall I do onto thee ? T't t t 0 than 11
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