336 Afg 1meht.t for I1ts ifccat on by the confïft, as they are required and prefcribed in the Goffiel unto us, and they do neither joyntly nor feverally fulfil and and anfwer -the commands of the Gofjel no more then they do the commands of the Law. Wherefore they cannot all of them conftitute a Righteoufnefs confifting in an exalt confor- mity unto the Rules of the Gofpel, or the Law of it. For it is impious to imagine that the Gofpel requiring any Duty of us, firppofe the Love of God, doth make any Abatement, as unto the matter, manner, or degrees -of perfection in it, from what was required by the Law. Doth the Gofpel re- quire a lower degree of Love to God, a lefs'perfeCi Love than the Law did ? God forbid. The fame may be laid concern- ing the inward frame of our natures, and all other Duties whatever ; wherefore although this Kighteoufnefs is accepted -in juftified Perlons, (as God had refj,ea unto Abel, and then unto his Offering) in the way and unto the ends that [hall be afterwards declared ; yet as it relates unto the commands óf the Gofpel, both it and all the Duties of it, are no lefs im- perfe&, then it would be, if it [hould be left unto its Trial by the Law of Creation only. 3. ',l know not whatfome men intend. On.the one hand they affirm that our Lord Jefus Chrift hath enlarged and heightened. the fpiritual fenfe of the moral Law, and not only fo, but added unto it new precepts of more exa& Obedience than it did require. But on the other they would have him to have brought down or taken off the Obligation of the Law, fo as thata.man according as he hath adapted it unto the ufe of the Gofpel, [hall be judged of God to have fulfilled the whole Obedience which it -requires, who never anfwered any one precept of it according unto its- original fenfe and ob- ligation. For fo it muft be, if this imperfe& Righteoufnefs be on any account efteemed a furling of the' Rule of our Obedience, as that thereon we thould be juftified in the fight of God. q,. This
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