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to the Explanation of the Doí`frine, &C. 4 not the fill born, being hid under the habit of his Brother,., and cloathed with his Garment which breathed a fweet favour, pre- finted himfelf unto his Father, that in the perfon of another, bek, might receive the Bleffing of the Primogeniture; fo is -it necef -_. fry that we fhoulçl lye hid under the precious' parity of the fir Si born our elde.il Brother, be fragrant with his fweet favour, and- have our fin buried and covered with his perfeClion, that we may prefent our flues before our moil Holy Father, to obtain from him the Biding of Righteoufnef.? And again ; God therefore . doth juftifié us by his free Grace ör Goodnefs' wherewith he em --- braceth us in Chri i yefus, when he cloatheth us' with his Inno- cency and Righteoufnefl' as we are ingrafted into him ; for as that alone is true and perfect which only can endure in the fight of God, f that alone ,ought to be prefented and pleaded for us before the divine Tribunal, as the advocate of,, or plea in our caufe ; re fling hereon, we here obtain the daily pardon of fn ;: with whofe purity being covered, our filth and the uncleannej?of our imperfecfions are not imputed unto us, but are covered as if they were buried, that they may not come into the Judgment of God; until the old man being deflroyecl and fain in us;_ di- vine Goodnefs receives us into peace. with the fecond Adam. So far he ; exprefiing the power which the influence of di - vine truth had on his mini, contrary to the Interelt of the . calk wherein he was ingaged, and the lofs of his Reputa- tion with them, for whom in all other things, he was one of the fierceft Champions. And fome among the Roman Church, who cannot bear this Affertion of the Commutation of Sin and`Righteouftiefs by Imputation between Chriff. and Belie,_. vers, no more thenföme among our (elves,. do yet affirm the fame concerning the Rigbteoufneß of other. mene Mercatu -- ram quondam docure nos Paulus videtur. Abundatisÿ inguit . vos ecunia p eflis mopes fufl7t7ce, contra iÌiì abundant: f7ti -. tia, & font mopes pec inix, fiat quidam commutatio; date vos, egentihm pecuniann qu a vobis a fßuit, dig deficit ;; f c. frs future

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