43 2 Teflamonies out of he chargeth them. Luke 16.15. 7'e are they which juf ifieyour 'ekes before men ; but God knoweth your hearts, for that which is highly e(leemed amongfl men, is abomination in the fight of God : As in this Sermon he makes it evident. And all thofe who were under their conduit, did peek to of ablifh their own Righteoufnefs, as it were by the works of the Law, Rom. 9. 33. Chap. 10. 3. But yet were they convinced in their own Con - fciences, that they could not attain unto the Law of Righte- oufnef ; or unto that perfè &ion of obedience which the Law did require.Yet would they not forego their proud, fond imagination of juftification by their own Righteoufnefs, but, as the manner of all Men is in the fame cafe, fought out other inventions to relieve them againft their cony' viótions. For unto this end, they corrupted the whole Law by their falfe gloj es and interpretations to bring down, and debafe the fenfe of it, unto what they boafted in themfelves to per- form. Sodoth he in whom our Saviour gives an inftance of the principle and praaice of the whole Society, by way of a Parable. Lul¿, i 8.10, 11,12. And fo the young Man affirmed, That he had kept the whole Law from his youth, namely in their fenfe. Matth.r9, 20. To root out this pernicious Error out of the Church, our Lord Jefus Chrift in many inftances, gives the true, fpiritual Senfe and intention of the Law, manifefting what the Righ- teoufnefs is, which the Law requires, and on what terms a Man may be juilifed thereby. And among fundry others to the fame purpofe,two things he evidently declares. (1.) That the Law in its Precepts and Prohibitions had regard unto the regulation of the heart, with all its firft motions and aft - ings. For he aífrts, that the inmofl thoughts of the heart, and the firft motions of concupifcence therein, though not contented unto, much lets aerually accomplifhed in the out- ward deeds of fin, and all the occafions leading unto them, are direaly forbidden in the Law. This he doth in his holy Expofition
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