z?$ Of tie End fe&ts of Sin removed, prefent and to come ; and to receive and enjoy the Privileges of juftified Perfons, which are Reconciliation, Adoption, Peace of Confcience, Freedom from the Law's Curfe, and Evil of all Af. fliétions, Sting of Death. (3.) Faith comes to get the Lord Jefus himfelf, it wants Chrift, and the Want of Chrift is its great Mile- ry and Hell; and hence Chrift it mull have, without which all other Benefits, whether fpiritual or temporal, could not make the Soul happy, and who alone comprehends all other Bleffings; the Pearl ofgreat Price, for whom 'a11 Things are gladly fold, and put away, without whom Heaven were but Hell, and whole Prefence makes Hell a Heaven. (q..) To honour and glorifie the Lord : I have been all my Days diíhonouring thee, faith the Sinner, and I cannot pleafe the Lord ; the Heart is de/perately wicked ; Lips are un- clean, Hands defiled, Converfation pollut- ed ; I can get no Service done for the Lord, cannot get him pleated ; hence it comes to Chrift for this, Lord renew me according to thy bleffed Image, write thy Laws upon my Heart, and make me honour and pleafe thee, rho' thou .íhouldfl never give me Heaven for ir. So you fee that this Salvation is the End cf Faith It is God's End in the Gofpel- Call that ye might believe, an4, be loved. Theft
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