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What he ne'er broke, and yet must die,
I never kept, yet live muft I. 1
The law, which him its keeper kill'd,
In me its breaker is fulfill'd; 2
Yea, magnify'd and honour'd more
Than fin defac'd it e'er before. 3
Hence though the law condemn at large,
It can lay nothing to my charge; 4
Nor find fuch ground to challenge me,
As Heaven hath found to juftify. 5
But though he freely me remit,
I never can myself acquit. 6
My Judge condemns me not, I grant;
Yet juftify myself I can't. 7
From him I have a pardon got,
But yet myself I pardon not. 8

I 1 Pet. iii. 18. See figure 6. p. 187. 2 Cor. v. 21. See figure 1. p. 188. 1 John iv. 19. In this was manifefted the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live thro' him.

2 Rom. viii. 3, 4. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak thro' the flesh, God fending his own Son, in the likeness of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh: that the righteoufnefs of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

3 Isaiah xlii. 21. The Lord is well-pleased, for his righteousness' fake, he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. Rom. v. 18,-21. Therefore as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even fo by the righteouinefs of one, the free gift came upon all mea unto justification of life. For as by one man's dilobedience, many were made finners; fo by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous. Moreover, the law entered, that the offence might abound: but where in abounded, grace did much more abound: that as fin hath reigned unto death, even fo might grace reign through righteoufnefs unto eternal life, by Jefus Christ our Lord. 4 Rom. viii. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which Verfe 33, 34. Who fhall lay are in Chrift Jefus. Verse 3, 4. See figure 2. It is God that juftifieth: who is he any thing to the charge of God's elect? that condemneth? It is Chrift that died, yea, rather that is rifen again, who is even at the right-hand of God, who allo maketh interceflion for us.

5 Job xxxiii. 24. Then he is gracious unto him, and faith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ranfom. Rom. iii. 25, 26. Whom God hath fet forth to be a propitiation, thro' faith in his blood; to declare his righteoufnefs for the remiffion of fins that are paft, thro' the forbearance of God; to declare, I fay, at this time, his righteousness: that he might be just, and the juftifier of him that believeth in Jefus.

6 2 Sam. xii. 13. And David faid unto Nathan, I have finned against the Lord. And Nathan faid unto David. The Lord alfo hath put away thy fin; thou shalt not die. Pfalm li. 2, 3. Walh me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my fin. For I acknowledge my tranfgreffions; and my

fin is ever before me.

7 Rom. viii. 1. 33. See figure 4. Job ix. 20. If I justify myself, mine own mouth fhall condemn me: if I fay, I am perfect, it shall alfo prove me perverse.

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2 Cor, vii, 11. For behold this felf-fame thing that ye forrowed after

His rich forgivenefs ftill I have,

Yet never can myfelf forgive. I
The more he's toward me appeas'd,
The more I'm with myfelf difpleas'd. z
The more I am abfolv'd by him,
The more I do myfelf condemn. 3
When he in heav'n dooms me to dwell,
Then I adjudge myself to hell; 4
Yet ftill I to his judgment 'gree,
And clear him for abfolving me. 5

a godly fort, what carefuluefs it wrought in you; yea, what clearing of yourfelves; yea, what indignation; yea, what fear; yea, what vehement defire; yea, what zeal; yea, what revenge?

1 Ifa. xxxviii. 15. What fhall I fay he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I fhall go foftly all my years in the bitternefs of my foul.

2 Ezek. xvi. 63. That thou mayst remember and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, becaufe of thy thame, when I am pacified loward thee for all that thou hast done, faith the Lord God.

3 Luke xviii. 13, 14. And the publican ftanding afar off, would not lift up fo much as his eyes unto heaven, but fmote upon his breaft, faying, God be merciful to me a finner. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself, fhall be abafed; and he that humbleth himfelf, fhall be exalted. Ezek. xxxvi. 31, 32. Then fhall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and fhall lothe yourfelves in your own fight, for your iniquities, and for your abominations. Not for your fakes do I this, faith the Lord Gord God, be it known unto you: be athamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Ifrael. Jer. xxxi. 19. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was inftructed, I fmote upon my thigh: I was alhamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

4 Mat. xxv. 34,39. Then shall the King fay unto them on his right-hand, Come, ye bleffed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you, from the foundation of the world. For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat : I was thirty, and ye gave me drink I was a ftranger and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was fick, and ye vifited me: I was in prifon, and ye came unto me. Then fhall the righteous anfwer him, faying, Lord, when faw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirity, and gave thee drink? When faw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or, when faw we thee fick, or in prifon, and came unto thee? 2 Cor. xi. 31. If we would judge ourselves, we fhould not be judged. Luke xv. 20, 21. And he (viz. the prodigal son,) arose, and came to his father. But when he was a great way off, his father faw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kiffed him. And the fon faid unto him, Father, I have finned against Heaven, and in thy fight, and am no more worthy to be called thy fʊn. Gen, xxxii. 9, 10. And Jacob faid, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Ifaac, the Lord which faidft unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou haft thewed nnto thy fervant; for with my staff I pafied over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands.

5 Pfalm li. 4. Against thee, thee only, have I finned, and done this evil in thy fight that thou mightit be juftified when thou fpeakeft, and be clear when thou judgeft. And xi. 7. The righteous Lord loveth righteoufnefs; his countenance doth behold the upright. And cxlv. 16, 17. Thou openeft thine hand, and fatisfieft the defire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his

Thus he clears me, and I him clear;

I juftify my Juftifier. 1

Let him condemn or justify,

From all injuftice I him free. 2

SECT. VIII.

The Mystery of SANCTIFICATION imperfect in this Life; or, the Believer doing all, and doing nothing.

INE arms embrace my God 3, yet I

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Had never arms to reach fo high; 4

His alone me holds 5, yet low!

I hold and will not let him go. 5

ways, and holy in all his works. Rev. xv. 3. And they fung the fong of Mofes the fervant of God, and the fong of the Lamb, faying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of faints.

Rom. iii. 25. To declare, I fay, at this time his righteoufnefs; that he might be juft, and the juftitier of him which believeth in Jefus. Ifa. xlv. 21. There is no God elfe befide me; a just God and a Saviour. Ver. 24. Surely, fhall one fay, In the Lord have I righteoufnefs and ftrength. Chap. Ixiii. 1. Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? This that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatnels of his ftrength? I that Speak in righteoufnefs, mighty to fave. Zech. ix. 9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; fhout, O daughter of Jerufalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is juft, and having falvation, &C.

2 Job xxv. 4, 5, 6 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Behold even to the moon, and it fhineth not; yea, the ftars are not pure in his fight. How much lefs man that is a worm; and the fon of man which is a worm. Pfalm lxxxix. 14. Juftice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth fhall go before thy face. And xcvii. 2. Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteoutnefs and judgment are the habitation of his throne. Rom. ii. 19, 20. Now we know that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law; that every mouth may be flopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there thall no flein be juttified in his fight for by the law is the knowledge of fin. Ver. 23, 24, 25. For all have finned, and come short of the glory of God; being freely juftified by his grace, thro' the redemption that is in Jefus Chrift: whom God hath fet forth to be the pro pitiation, thro' faith in his blood, to declare his righteoufnefs for the remillion of fins that are paft, thro' the forbearance of God. Pfalm xxii. 2, 3. O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; and in the night feafon, and am not filent. But thou art hely, O thou that inhabiteft the praifes of Ilrael.

3 Song iii. 4. It was but little that I paided from them, but I found him whom my foul loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's houfe, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

4 Palm Ixi. 2. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than 1.

5 Pfalm i 8. My foul foliowth hard after thee: thy right hand uphold. eth me. Ifa. xli. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not difmayed, for I am thy God: I will ftrengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right-hand of my righteoufnef

6 Gen. xxxii. 26. And he [the angel] faid, Let me go, for the day breaketh: and he [viz. Jacob] faid, I will not let thee go, except thou blefs me.

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I do according to his call;
And yet not I, but he does all: I
But though he works to will and dɔ, 2
I without force work freely too. 3
His will and mine agree full well, 4
Yet difagree like heaven and hell. 5
His nature's mine 6, and mine is his; 7
Yet fo was never that nor this. 8

I know him and his name, yet own
He and his name can ne'er be known. 9
His gracious coming makes me do;

I know he comes, yet know not how. 10

I 1 Cor. xv. 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am and his prace which was bestowed on me, was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I. but the grace of God which was with me. Ver. 58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye fledfalt, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, foralmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Phil. ii. 13. It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do, of his good pleature.

3 Pfalm cx. 3. Thy people fhall be willing in the day of thy power. And cxvi. O Lord, truly I am thy fervant, I am thy fervant, and the fon of thy handmaid: thou haft loofed my bonds.

4 Matth. vi. 10. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Pfalm xl. 8. 1 delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

5 Mat. xxii. 28, 29. A certain man had two fons, and he came to the first, and faid, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard: He answered, and faid, I will not, &c. John v 40 Ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.Mat. xxii 37 O Jerufalem, Jerufalem! thou that killeft the prophets, and Honeft them which are fent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

6 2 Pet. i. 4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promiles; that by thefe you might be partakers of the divine nature.

7 Heb. ii. 14. For much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he alfo himself likewife took part of the fame. Verse 16. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the feed of Abraham.

8 Ifa. x. 17, 18. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

9 Pfalm ix. 10. They that know thy name will put their truft in thee. Prov. xxx. 3, 4. I [viz. Agur] neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. Who hath afcended up into heaven, or defcended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fifts? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his fon's name, if thou canst tell? 10 Song iv. 16. Awake, O north wind, and come, thou south, blow upon my garden, that the fpices thereof may flow out: let my Beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. John iii. 8. The wind

I have no good but what he gave, I
Yet he commands the good I have. 2
And though my good to him afcends, 3
My goodness to him ne'er extends. 4
I take hold of his cov'nant free; 5
But find it must take hold of me. 6
I'm bound to keep it 7, yet 'tis bail,
And bound to keep me without fail. 8

bloweth where it lifteth, and thou heareft the found thereof, but canft not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: fo is every one that is born of the Spirit. 1 1 Chron. xxix 14. And David faid,-But who am I. and what is my people, that we should be able to offer fo willingly after this fort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 2 Cor. iii. 5. Not that we are fufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves: but our fufficiency is of God.

2 2 Cor. x. 18. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Rom. xii. 1, 2. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye prefent your bodies a living facrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

3 Pfalm xxv. 1. Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my foul. And cxli. 2. Let my prayer be fet before thee as incenfe; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening facrifice. Eph. iii. 12. In whom (viz. Jefus Chrift,) we have boldness and accefs with confidence by the faith of him. Heb x. 19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jefus, &c.

4 Pfalm xvi. 2. O my foul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee.

5 Ifa Ivi. 4. Thus faith the Lord unto the eunuchs-that take hold of my covenant, &c. Ver. 6. Alfo the fons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that—taketh hold of my covenant, &c:

6 Zech. i. 6. But my words and my ftatutes, which I commanded my fer vants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? And they returned and faid, Like as the Lord of holts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us. Pfalm xc. 2, 3. The Lord fhall fend the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people thall be willing in the day of thy power, &c. Rom. i. 16. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Chrift; for it is the power of God unto falvation, to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 2 Cor. ii. 16.—to the other we are the favour of life unto life: and who is fufficient for thefe things?

7 Pfalm ciii. 17, 18. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him: and his righteoufnefs unto childrens children: to fuch as keep his covenant, and to thole that remember his commandments to do them. John xvii. 6. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thon gavelt me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

8 Pfalm lxxxix. 33,-36. Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not ut terly take from him, nor fuffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I fworn by my holiness, that I will not lye unto David. His feed fhall endure for ever, and his throne as the fun before me. + N

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