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THE HAPPINESS
OF
SEPARATE SPIRITS.
CDTSC.
Il.
shall
many
be
made
righteous. They
have seen
them-
selves
all guilty
and
exposed to the wrath
of
God, they
bave
fled
to lay
hold
on the
hope set before
them,
they
have
mourned
before God,.
and
been weary
of
sin,
they
have received
the
great atonement,
they have committed
their
case
by
a living faith
to
Jesus
the righteous, the
surety and
the Saviour
of
perishing sinners
;
and
that
God
hath received them
into
his
favour, and has
imputed
righteousness. to
them,
even
that God
who
is
just, and
the justifier of
them
that
believe in
Jesus..
Now this
sense
cannot
reasonably
be
excluded
from the
character
of
a saint,
though
the
word
righteous
is
more frequently
taken
in
the
following
senses.'
II.
Their
natures are
made righteous
and
sanctified
by the
Spirit
of
grace.,
They
have
a
principal of
grape
and holiness
'wrought
in them
;
so
the
word
signifies
;
Eph.
iv.
_"
The
new
man
which
is
created after the
image
of God,
in
righteousness and true holiness." They
were once sinners,
disobedient and
unholy,
as
they were
born
into
this world
;
but
they.
are
born again, and made
new
creatures
by
the grace
of the Holy
Spirit.
Their
:understandings
are
enlightened
to see
the
,dreadful evil
of
sin,
and the
divine
beauty
of
holiness.
Their wills
are
turned
from folly
and
vanity, from the
love
of
earth,
and
sense,.
and
sin,. to
a
holy
contempt of
the world,
and
a
hatred of
all
that
is
sinful
;
from a
neglect of religion to
desires
after
God, and a delight
in
him
;
from
a
mere
formal
profession
of
the
gospel,
to the faith and love
of
Christ, and
a
zealous
pursuit of holiness;
and
they
place
théir
highest hopes and their
joys
in
things divine, spi-
ritual, and
eternal.
III.
Their
lives
are righteous and conformable
to
the
will
of God
revealed
in
his word.
Sá
the
term righteous
signifies,
1
John
iii.
7.
-
He`that
doeth
righteousness
is
.
righteous.
The
just
man makes it
the
business
of
his
life
to dó
works
of
righteousness, taken
in the
largest
sense
;
to worship
God,
to
seek his
glory, to obey
his
will,
which
is
the
'rule of righteousness;
to
do
him all
the
service on
earth
that
his
station
and:
circumstances
,,ádnait
of,
and
to deal faithfully and
justly
among
men,
and
do them all
the good
that
lies
in
his
power.
These are
the
just
men whose
spirits are
spoken
of
in
rrly
text.