526 Chap. 29, "In Expoftion upon the ßookof J o 2 Verf. 14, J to ®ufnefs, and it cloat-hedhirr.., and hi.r_judgement was ar a Robe and a Diariem. From the connexion of this vale with the former, Obferve ; good cafagifirate will not releive fame by wrong to any. Though heought to thew compaffion to the poor, yet he snuff not doe the leaft injudice for the poor. The late of c'l'Iofes was exprefs: in this ( x -d. 23. 3 ) Thou floa/ç nót countenance a poor ?flu in his caufe. VVhat ? not Phew favour to a poor 'MAD ? no,not to a poor man, with wrong co Juflice; not only is it fin, full to countenance pr refpe& the perfon of a rich man, . ro a poor mans wrong ; but to wrong the rich with refpe& to the p000r -is elló exceedingfinful : And the acct is by fo much the worfe, as the end is the better, L is a blelled end of our a6}ìons °ro help the poor, but that end muff be compaffed by goodmeaner ; w,it ought not to lye for God, much Ws for man, Officious lyars are as much againfi truth'and righteoufnefs, as malicious ones are. If we help a poor man becaúfe poor, we snuff help him out of our own, not out of other messpu fes ; we muff not releive any one againft the right öf. enor.her. VVe muff judge according to .he cq, ry of the caule, not according to the povtr -ÿ of the perfon. Be lure, when you put on (As the Apoffle exhorts theitle:&ion of rod to doe (Cot, s. 1-z.) Bowels ofmercy and k:ndnefs, that ye put on righteoufniëfs too, and then the more of therm you put 'en, the more notify you a&t, and you look the more like th l lob} ofcod yea the more like, God Mail:elf, who (aa the P. d.:c d- him, Jer. 9, 24.)- iVnen he exerciietU y7, e;:,, in conjun&ton -with it, exercife judgment as `; .,;', x f- in t,% earth. !put on righteorefnef.r ; whatighteouÇn ? t4, Pe is a two- fold righteoulnet's Firft, of OW p r ; S :ccnory, of our s&i- ons ; we put on Chrift by faith in juftifiest ir,n as the- o me, righ. teouïnefs; For he is made unto au of God' wifkm and r-hteaîJ. nefr.. fir many as have beenbaptiz.sd into Chrift;they have( shun) par on Chrifi (Gil. 3. 27.) This is our bra cloa;hinp, even out, s++r..'dding garment (Ifd. 6 I. r CO I. rntll Krcatly rejoyce in the L:wd my loin ()mil bi joyfulin my God, for he hashcloathed me with the garment of falvaion ; he herb covcrcd me with the robes of rightem óufncfs ;
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