- Without Rumiliati<11f;;o mercy. have fuch a righteoufneffe as lhall perfectlycover · · all thefe finnes, this he will thinke a great matter. So it was to Sa'int Paul, when he faw himfelfe the greateft of finners. And whenamanthus fees his particular fores a~d ·difeafes, and fomething in ChriRs righteoufne111: to -anfwer ·them all ; as ·Cbrifts patience to anfwer his impatience, chrifls– love to frand for his hatred, Chrijls holindfe ofna· , ture to cover his uncleannelfe, hewill then begin to eftceme every Iewell in that Cabinet,for he knowes _he could not {pare onepart of that righteoufneffe, · · he fees a glorious righteoufneffe to cloath and co. ver his nakedndfe from top to toe, and this makes him prize it and every pan of it, whichaman un. humbled will not doe; and as hewouldnotefieeme the imputed righteoufneffe_of Chrifi, fo nor inhe– rent righteoufneffe from him, whereby he fuould beenabled toturnefrom his c:vill waies ; but when a man fees and knowes what a heart he hath, how falfe,. how full of finnes, and emptyofgrace, and · what ll:rong lulls are there, t hen.when hefhall finde the' contrary graces Wrought in him, he prizeth fhem highly, and Chri!l: for them, becaufe they are the pretious gifcs 0f Chrifi:, for he knowesand acknowledgeth they are the foie workeof Chrifi, becaufe inhis nature dwelleth nogood rhing. And why elfe cloth God after converfion futfer his peo– ple to fall into finne, and into variety of ternprati. ons, burthat they might be mo·rehumbled frill, and_, fo know the worth of Chrift herein~ · · ._ It is required men lhouldbe humbled, becartfe Reaf.3· ·~. elfe they will not actual·ly turne from their eviU ' · F ·4 way~s,- . ·
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