'that, god rët uïreth, of úßö: leave no flandard of Righteoufnef , but only a Lesbian Rule, which turns and apply's it felf unto the light?and abilities of men, and leaves at leaff as many varioars sheaf res of Righte- oufnefs as there are Believers in the World. (3 ) It includes a variation in the center of all Religion, which is the natural and moral Relation of men unto God. For fo there muff be, if all that was once neceffary thereunto, do not íh11 continue fo to be (4) It is difhonourable unto the mediation of Chriff. For it makes the principal end of it to be, that God fhoulcl accept of a Righteoufnef unto our jrsflification, inex- prefhibly beneath that which he required in the Law of our Creation.And this in a fenfe makes him the Mimer of fn, or that he hath procured an Indulgence unto it; not by the way of fatisfa &ion and pardon whereby he takes away the guilt of it from the Church 5 but by taking from it its nature and demerit, fo as that what was fo originally íhould not conti- nue fo to be, or at leaft not to deferve the punifhment it was firft threatned withal. ( 5 ) Tt refle &s on the goodnefs of God himfelf For on this fuppofition that he hath reduced his Law into that {fate and order, as to be fatisfied by an oba fervation of it fo weak, fo imperfeEl, accompanied with fo many failures and fins, as it is with the Obedience of the bell men in this World, ( whatever thoughts unto the con- trary the Phrenfic of Pride may fuggeft unto the minds of any) what reafon can be given confiffent with his goodnefs, why he _fhould give a Law at firff of perfeet Obedience, which one fin laid all mankind under the penalty of unto their Ruine ? 347 22. All there things and fundry others of the fame kind, dofollow alíò on the fecond fuppotition of an Acceptilation or an Imaginary eftimation of that as perfect, which is impeded, as finlefs which is attended with fins innumerable. But the )udgmená
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