Sut r 9 . Trium!Jh ,of Fai~h·. ~ 2_1 Chriil hath With the FatiJer, and tr ts cornmum- 1 cable neither to Men nor Angel, no ~ore than God can corn m .111icate with the Creature any other ofhis eifential Attributes;fuch as are in41n :te J ui:. tier, infinite Mercy, infinite Grace, Hnline i ~, G )Odnefs, Omnipotency, Eternity, IrnmenGry. Iris only the Cautionary, rheSurety-Righteou{nds of Chriil GoJ thu is made ours, and rhat we are as comple,utv Rit,hteous as Chrift, is Di vinJty not borrowed from the Fo unta in of the holy Scr iptures, but the MJn's own , Dream ; f0r rhe broken Debror is never io righrr-ous as · the s .,rery, except in this Senfe, he is ,::tqne but not requalirer, he is righteous as the Surety, who has payed the S~m, ·fur him, in Regard th.at the Creditor c:m no more in Law, charge h im with the ium, than he can in I .aw cha~;ge the furety, who bath com r)leatly pa id it ; fo are we in Chrift freed~ from the Guilt of eternal Wrath, in that the Lord can· no ffi(')re iri ·Law · char.at fin to actual Cond~mnation on the Bd iev- ~r, t~an he can put Chrifl: to Death ag.aitl, or give a new Ranfom for u~, but this js bur fbr.maliv 1 R ighteoufnefs, in Regard of Fre<:dom fi·om the Pu ' ' fhment of Sm : But as I have fa id, .the f tfc t y is mo_re righteou_s fimply, -in R~gard the Surety never broke Fatth to the . Cred1t6r; the broken Debtor hath broken to him. 2. The furety never injured the Credi ior by lnjufhce done a<'!ainil the eighth Commandment,· but the- bro-· :1. ken Man harh failed in this : B•Jt I would be , ~t;~. ref<>l ved what Truth can be in tho1e Prov. ~x. ;~;J:i .9 · ' Who can fay I have made my H art clean? ' f. .7ob. xiv. 5· ' Who Call hring a clean Thin!! (n t ' of an unclean? No not one,' Fv·ct. vii.z~. 'There ' .. is not a juft Man upon E~rth, that doeth ' 0,( ~"..1 'and
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