doftrine ofthofe darke times, in which the biind led the blind, and both ( we have caufe to feare ) fell into the ditch. And doth not this vayie of ignorance as to the myftery offrec-grace in the Gofpel remaine upon the hearts of many untaken away untiil this day ? What utter fltasgers are they who dreame of fuch a kind of balancing our good andevill deedes both to Law and Gofpel ^This is fo farre from being the Gofpel-ballance, that it is not fo much as the ballance of the Law. For if asrian fin but once, he is gone for ever by the Law. The covenant of workes, or the meere legal! covenant faith ( Gal. 3 .10.) Curfed u every onethat ermiinueth not in all things which are written in thebooke ofthe-Law to dtethem. It is not the doing more evill then good, but the doing of any cvill at all, which condemnes according to the tenour of that covenant. If a man could be fuppofed to have bntthe weight ofonegraine offininhim, that would makeaii his good workes -of no weight under the covenant of workes. And though a mans fins are ( as indeed every mans fins, the fins ofthemoft holy man on earth are) heavier then the fand, and of moreweight then a thoUfand mountaines,iand hisowne righ- teoufneffe not bearing the weight of a feather;indeed none at all, but rather-fhi the Prophet calls them,Ifa.6q:6 ) asfilthy raggt\ yet that man beingfri-the covenant ofgrace hath a righteoufries- even the Righteoufnes of faith, which will make him beare weight enough before God in the ballance of the Gofpel San- Suary, and will infinitely out-weigh all his fins. But, to returne, fob flood not upon any legal juftification of hirofelfe, or ofhiswayes.;His purpofe was only to fhew that he hadacle’are confidence, and 'that ( asPaul profeffed before the Counfel f ABs 2 3 . 1 .) He had livedin all good lohfiience before god untill that day; and that ifhe were weighed in' aneven bal- lance, hefhould neyther be found an hypocrite towardvGod, nor a dec,eiyer towards man. Uponthefe affnracces f^was ready to be weighed, riot upon anyc o n c e it of Cwjfjrijt^^effe; and this,he exprefieth in the latter part ofthe verie, That god may know hsinedtitegritfe- This Was a1 that cb flood con-iain- tain^h^hbndftyandfitieerity *And -asto thtat’he wasbrit-fobj wartferidugiitoiWIlenge all meriy ffiough" pofliMy ( as-hitri- f e l f e ^ t foascbrfliiicea) little-ebbforward aridjeorifiddrit Chap. 31. An Exposition upon ths Booit^of jo *. Veri. 6. before'Grid, wW fttfe’fayd.Xaf #*■ Y y 2 in dniveirbalidhci. Hence
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